Show d the Famous Dancer f 1 ch Q Who ilas Turned War Aviator C M MJ h J a Z et 1 I t w y yf t- t t s. s vr ce a rr r- r r i i kp x I w i S t r rw J P j rt I 9 3 t a x t 4 r a t 4 f r r 1 r. r r I Ir r I i Se 1 G. G 1 s J r z zy y i T a t T 5 V e b t F S I J Ji h i 4 r S 5 E a r di it Q y a 4 Why Vernon ernon on no Go to the Front Froni By Dy VERNON CASTLE WHEN HEY I said in a recent interview interview interview inter inter- view that every red-blooded red Englishman ought to enli enlist t many Y people did not think that I Jas was referring referring refer refer- r- r ring to myself They did did not 1 Imagine that t a an anae iwae- iwae a looking mic-looking dancing man like myself could be that red However b by t the tim this is printed I will be well across cross the Uie Atlantic and andin andin in another a l ther theron on jor six siz x weeks at the outside I be somewhere in France fighting for my country Until the great war broke out I almost imagined that I was an American Ameri Ameri- can j. j had been here nearly ten years and all my friends friends all my Interests were American Seriously I I did not believe th that t I wo would ld ever return to England except perhaps for fOl a brief visit r When the war waro oame oame n with its ts series serles of d disasters to Bri British h arms arms I I could not forget forget that I i was wa's was v van t an an anEn En Englishman I j For while e I American wife I IWas IWas Iwas Was born bar in Norwich in the County Count of or Norfolk England And my name is not not Cas Castle e but a a h good old oid English name name When I determined more than a year ago to to give my y s services ic s to my country I w was s sUnder under contract to Char Charles es Dillingham ham I I h hid had d to fulfil that that contract which did not terminate until last December Then as I was a ambitious to en enlist In the a aviation b branch of or th the service for six weeks I attended the Curtiss aviation school schoor at Newport News Va where I Il Ji I fly and and wh where re I 1 have J just st jvon won my I fly flying y ng certificate certificate erti te Fortunately 1 i I knew something about motors motors and flying before I 1 went to td Newport News Co Consequently my stay there was brief brier After Arter flying for lor minutes time I was given the necessary certificate certificate- I Immediately upon my arrival in London I shall enlist enlist and probability probability ability be sent to Hendon where the aviation ion corps corps is is in training There I will have to fly twenty-four twenty hours hours' be before before before be- be fore qualifying as a military ry aviator In addition I will wili have to ito attend classes in map maD making and other mill mili tary tars subjects ts How However ver within six lib weeks weela if I have any kind of luck I hope to be at the front frank Why do cio I leave America where fortune for fog tune une upon me a am an Englishman England Engla d needs every Englishman Englishman to todo do his h. h s bit 0 I hope to return when the war is over In fact I have have havea a contract to Xo appear under Charles Dill in s 's management if it I return And the contract contract con con con- tract includes my wife wire too which ought to ought to put an end an-end end to the rumors of our separation Of course I 1 may to return Occasionally an air aviator meets with disaster In th that t case I will wm simP simply l have the satisfaction of having done my duty and the subsequent proceedings proceed proceed- proceedings proceedIngs ings as one of or your American poets posts once wrote will Interest me no no more |