The Papers of Will Rogers: From Vaudeville to Broadway, September 1908-August 1915

by Will Rogers Jr., Arthur Frank Wertheim (Editor), Barbara Bair (Editor)

Overview

This third volume of The Papers of Will Rogers documents the evolution of Rogers’s vaudeville career as well as the newlywed life of Will and Betty Blake Rogers and the birth of their children. During these years, the Rogerses moved to New York City, and after many years of performing with Buck McKee and horse Teddy, Rogers began a solo act in vaudeville as a talking, roping cowboy. He appeared on the same playbill with such performers as Fred Stone, Eddie Cantor, and Houdini, and his stage career expanded to include an appearance in the Broadway musical comedy "The Wall Street Girl." Volume Three ends with Rogers’s successful transition from vaudeville to Broadway, on the brink of his breakthrough as a star of the Ziegfeld Follies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806133157
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	06/15/2001
Series:	Papers of Will Rogers , #3
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)