. My husband . or her hetook the name of Castle. When I first met himI naturally thought it a perfectly genuine name,but it was Lawrence Grossmith who ?pplied it,and Windsor Castle seems to have been theinspiration. The Orchid was never done as a play, butseveral scenes were taken out of it and incor-porated in Lew Fieldss production of AboutTown, which opened at the Herald SquareTheatre with Lew Fields, George Beban, HarryFisher, Joe Herbert, Jack Norworth, LawrenceGrossmith, Coralie Blyth, Edna Wallace Hop-per, Louise Allen Collier, Elita Proctor Otis, andLouise Dresser. When the company wen
. My husband . or her hetook the name of Castle. When I first met himI naturally thought it a perfectly genuine name,but it was Lawrence Grossmith who ?pplied it,and Windsor Castle seems to have been theinspiration. The Orchid was never done as a play, butseveral scenes were taken out of it and incor-porated in Lew Fieldss production of AboutTown, which opened at the Herald SquareTheatre with Lew Fields, George Beban, HarryFisher, Joe Herbert, Jack Norworth, LawrenceGrossmith, Coralie Blyth, Edna Wallace Hop-per, Louise Allen Collier, Elita Proctor Otis, andLouise Dresser. When the company went onthe road Vernon became his brother-in-laws un-derstudy, and at one time played that part inconjunction with his own. His success with Lew Fields was very great, butin the early days he was considered merely as aneccentric comedian who must have been like theparts he played — that is, a burlesque English-man, and one of the earliest importers of a wrist-watch — then so sneered at and now so popular, [lO]. Vernon Castle at the age of nineteen. MY HUSBAND the Americans finally having acknowledged itsusefulness and adaptability for uniforms andsports. He was in Old Dutch, The GirlBehind the Counter, The Midnight Sons, andThe Summer Widowers. In one of these hehad a dance with poor, charming Lotta Faust,who had previously made her great hit in TheWizard of Oz. So far as I know this is the firstdancing that Vernon did in pubHc. In many ways Lew Fieldss production ofThe Hen-Pecks was most important in hiscareer and in mine also. Here Vernon made hisfirst real hit, and in this part the critics grudginglybegan to admit that he had a talent for the stageand was an excellent foil for Lew Fields. Hisrole was that of Zowie, the Monarch of Mys-tery, and to this role Vernon brought all hisskill as a sleight-of-hand performer. Of coursethe tricks he did on the stage were burlesqueones, but no one without a thorough understand-ing of the conjurers work could possibly havedone the part s
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