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Vernon and Irene Castle's ragtime revolution /
Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable pastime in America. The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in many ways: they traveled with a black orchestra, had an openly lesbian manager, and were animal-rights ad...
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2007.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty; 2. About Town; 3. Only Forty-five Minutes from Broadway?; 4. We would be much happier if we just relaxed and enjoyed school life
- 5. I could tell by looking at him that he was not my cup of tea
- 6. Zowie, the Monarch of Mystery
- 7. They liked to test out their guns
- 8. Enfin ... une Revue; 9. I saw the fat years ahead
- 10. Everybody's Doing It; 11. Two adolescent palm trees
- 12. Gowns are more or less a business with me
- 13. The best dancing music in the world14. More like a pair of schoolchildren
- 15. Syncopation rules the nation
- 16. The Most Talked About House in New York
- 17. Dancing with Vernon was as easy as swimming with water wings
- 18. The spirit of success ... oozes from these two young people
- 19. The Castles Are Coming! Hooray! Hooray!
- 20. We were both miserable on those vaudeville tours
- 21. Their enthusiastic followers never ... go to bed at all
- 22. Mrs. Castle is exhausted
- 23. Castles in the subway, /Castles in the 'L'
- 24. Oh, give me a gun and let me run to fight the foreign foe25. When I get old I shall be able to tell our children all about the Great War
- 26. Kiss all the pets for me, dear
- 27. A super motion picture of ... epoch-making magnificence
- 28. He was out to see the Kaiser defeated
- 29. An hour's pleasant diversion
- 30. I Love My Wife, but Oh, You Kid!; 31. Never in my life have I been subjected to such humiliation
- 32. His plane dove straight into the ground
- 33. Death is nothing to me, sweetheart
- 34. Robert was sweet, sympathetic, and besides he did all of my bidding35. A well-known dancing dame
- 36. Poor Irene Castle. She certainly isn't what she used to be
- 37. Jazs, jazz, jazz! ... The paradings of savages
- 38. To Chicago high society, she was a chorus girl
- 39. Orphans of the Storm; 40. What do you do for an encore to what they had?
- 41. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle; 42. Isn't old age awful!
- Appendix: Stage and Film Appearances of Vernon and Irene Castle; Notes; Bibliography; Index; PHOTO INSERT.