ヴァーノン・キャッスル夫妻の経歴

ヴァーノン・キャッスルの死亡を報じた、ニューヨークタイムズの1918年2月16日付けの記事VERNON CASTLE DIES IN AIRPLANE FALL から引用したものを和訳した。


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Vernon Castle's Career.

The recent dancing craze in America and the career of Vernon Castle are almost inseparable. Born in Norwich, England, thirty years ago and educated as a civil engineer, Mr. Castle rose from obscurity to wealth and fame, and his success was synchronous with the remarkable popularity of the one-step, the fox-trot, and similar steps, which a few years ago altered the character of a majority of the musical productions on the stage, turned the country's restaurants into dancing parlors, with the taking of nourishment as an incidental, and made afternoon tea as popular a diversion in America as it is in England.
近年の我が国におけるダンスに対する熱狂は、ヴァーノン・キャッスルの経歴とほとんど切り離すことはできない。30年前英国のノーウィックに生まれ、民間の技術者として教育を受けたヴァーノン・キャッスルは無名な存在から身を起こし、富裕で有名になったのであるが、彼の成功はワンステップ、フォックストロット、そしてそれらと同様な複数のステップの大変な人気と同期している。それらのステップはわずか数年前に、劇場におけるミュージカルの主要な部分の性格を変え、そして我が国のレストランを、食事をとるのは二の次のダンシング・パーラーに変え、午後のティータイムを英国での状況と同じように気晴らし程度のものにしてしまった。

Mr. Castle, whose real name was Vernon Blythe, made his first appearance on the stage with Lew Fields in "THe Girl Behind the Counter" in 1907. His part was small, but it enabled him to start a dancing school and thus gratify the passion for inventing new steps and for imparting his skill to others, which he found irrepressible. He appeared in several successive Fields productions, making mild successes, particularly as Zowie in the "Henpecks" in 1911.
ヴァーノン・キャッスルの本名は、ヴァーノン・ブライスと言い、1917年にLew Fieldsによる"THe Girl Behind the Counter"で最初のステージを踏んでいる。彼の役柄は小さいものではあったが、そのおかげで、彼はダンススクールを開くことができ、そうして新しいステップを作り出すこととダンスの技術を他人に分け与えるという彼の情熱を満足されることになったのである。彼は引き続きFieldsのいくつかの作に出演し、そこそこの成功をおさめた。特に1911年の"Henpecks"のZowie役において。

Meantime he had been developing his dancing, teaching, inventing, and popularizing and when in May 1911, he married Miss Irene Foote of New Rochelle, who had played a small part in one of the Fields shows, he was about to ready to devote his entire time to the recreation.
しばらくの間彼は彼のダンス、教育、発明、普及を進めていたが、1911年の5月、Fieldsのショーのひとつで端役を務めていたニュー・ロッシェルのアイリーン・フートと結婚をした。それは彼がちょうど完全休養する準備ができる頃であった。

It was not long thereafter when the dance craze reached its full height in this country, and the Castles, both as teachers and on the stage, were among the most popular of the professional devotees. So keen did the rivalry in society become to excel at the pastime that enormous prices for lessons were paid, and so good a drawing card did a modern dancing act become on the stage that the Castles were able to command fabulous salaries.
それから間もなく、この国においてダンスに対する熱狂が最高に盛り上がったとき、

Starred on the Stage.

Finally, so much did the public like both the dances and the dancers and so eager was it to see both, that plays were created just as vehicles for the Castles and persons like them, with the plot a minor element and the dances the real drawing card. Such as "Watch your Step." in which they starred. For this they are said to have received $1,500 a week and a percentage of the profits. On one occasion Mr. Castle was reported to have got $1,500 for a single fifteen-minute appearance at the Hippodrome. For a period of several years his earnings were reached a high water mark of $6,000 a week, while always they were supposed to have stood well in the thousands.

The Castles' popularrity was not on the wane when Mr. Castle suddenly forsook the stage for the aviation field. He got his pilot's license in this country, and in Feburuary, 1916, sailed for England. He explained that he thought English stage people should not be slackers in this country. Mrs. Castle made several trips abroad to see her husband.

The same agility and quickness which made Mr. Castle a good dancer made him a good aviator, and he soon took rank as an accomplished and daring pilot. Mrs. Castle, returning in March, 1917, from a visit to her husband at the French front, he then having become a Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, told of his having received the Croix de Guerre for valor in bringing down two German planes.

Mrs. Castle recieved notification at her home, 120 Lexington Avenue, yesterday, that her husband had died. Her secretary said she had been prostrated by the news and that it had been neccesary to send for a physician. With her were Captain Lawrence Grossmith of the British army, husband of her sister, and Mrs. Grossmith. She was informed that the body would be escorted to New York by a detachment of the Royal Flying Corps and that the interment here would be marked by full military honors.


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Vernon Castle's Career.

The recent dancing craze in America and the career of Vernon Castle are almost inseparable. Born in Norwich, England, thirty years ago and educated as a civil engineer, Mr. Castle rose from obscurity to wealth and fame, and his success was synchronous with the remarkable popularity of the one-step, the fox-trot, and similar steps, which a few years ago altered the character of a majority of the musical productions on the stage, turned the country's restaurants into dancing parlors, whith the taking of nourishment as an incidental, and made afternoon tea as popular a diversion in America as it is in England.

Mr. Castle, whose real name was Vernon Blythe, made his first appearance on the stage with Lew Fields in "THe Girl Behind the Counter" in 1907. His part was small, but it enabled him to start a dancing school and thus gratify the passion for inventing new steps and for imparting his skill to others, which he found irrepressible. He appeared in several successive Fields productions, making mild successes, particularly as Zowie in the "Henpecks" in 1911.

Meantime he had been developing his dancing, teaching, inventing, and popularizing and when in May 1911, he married Miss Irene Foote of New Rochelle, who had played a small part in one of the Fields shows, he was about to ready to devote his entire time to the recreation.

It was not long thereafter when the dance craze reached its full height in this country, and the Castles, both as teachers and on the stage, were among the most popular of the professional devotees. So keen did the rivalry in society become to excel at the pastime that enormous prices for lessons were paid, and so good a drawing card did a modern dancing act become on the stage that the Castles were able to command fabulous salaries.


Starred on the Stage.

Finally, so much did the public like both the dances and the dancers and so eager was it to see both, that plays were created just as vehicles for the Castles and persons like them, with the plot a minor element and the dances the real drawing card. Such as "Watch your Step." in which they starred. For this they are said to have received $1,500 a week and a percentage of the profits. On one occasion Mr. Castle was reported to have got $1,500 for a single fifteen-minute appearance at the Hippodrome. For a period of several years his earnings were reached a high water mark of $6,000 a week, while always they were supposed to have stood well in the thousands.

The Castles' popularrity was not on the wane when Mr. Castle suddenly forsook the stage for the aviation field. He got his pilot's license in this country, and in Feburuary, 1916, sailed for England. He explained that he thought English stage people should not be slackers in this country. Mrs. Castle made several trips abroad to see her husband.

The same agility and quickness which made Mr. Castle a good dancer made him a good aviator, and he soon took rank as an accomplished and daring pilot. Mrs. Castle, returning in March, 1917, from a visit to her husband at the French front, he then having become a Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, told of his having received the Croix de Guerre for valor in bringing down two German planes.

Mrs. Castle recieved notification at her home, 120 Lexington Avenue, yesterday, that her husband had died. Her secretary said she had been prostrated by the news and that it had been neccesary to send for a physician. With her were Captain Lawrence Grossmith of the British army, husband of her sister, and Mrs. Grossmith. She was informed that the body would be escorted to New York by a detachment of the Royal Flying Corps and that the interment here would be marked by full military honors.

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