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Since lockdown started I’ve become fascinated by the era of #ragtime and #silentcinema. There’s one extraordinary story from the 1910s which grabbed me, and I think is really worth sharing right now. Long thread incoming.
Vernon Castle was the son of a pub landlord born in Norwich, who moved to across the Atlantic to New York in 1906. He became a bit part comedy dancer/actor on the vaudeville circuit. 
In 1910 Vernon met Irene Foote, the daughter of a NY doctor. She was a middle-class suburban liberal, while Vernon was a working-class Englishman. The two fell in love and they married a year later. Irene had dreams of going on the stage and she convinced him to focus on dancing.
