Feeling Photography by Brown Elspeth H.; Phu Thy

Author:Brown, Elspeth H.; Phu, Thy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780822377313
Publisher: Duke University Press

CASTLES, CASTLES EVERYWHERE

In June 1915, Vanity Fair published a celebratory “complaint” about the Castles, bemoaning the extent to which the debonair young couple had infiltrated urban amusements, city streets, daily newspapers, transportation systems, fashion houses, and, perhaps most significantly, the minds and bodies of American consumers:

Castles in the playhouse,

Castles on the roof,

Castles in the Movies, Ditto op'ra bouffe;

Castles on the platform,

Castles on the rug;

Learn the Castle fox-trot!

Do the Castle-hug!

Castles in the cellar, Castles on the floor;

“Castles!” croaked the raven,

“Castles evermore!”

Castles on the billboards,

Castles in the cars; Call for Castle Cocktails,

Candies and cigars!

Castles in the cafes

Castles in the news,

Castles with your breakfast,

Castles with your booze,

Castles on the Victor, Till you cannot think,

Castles, Castles, everywhere,

And plenty more to drink.

Males buy boots like Vernon's;

Females ape Irene

Whether they be sixty,

Six, or sweet sixteen.

Irene Castle bonnets,

Bracelets, belts and coats,

Cram the streets, the buses,

The cars, the ferryboats.

Castles in the subway,

Castles in the “L,”

How I wish the Castles

Were both of them in Spain!20

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