The Papers of Will Rogers: From Vaudeville to Broadway, by Will Rogers, Arthur Frank Wertheim, Barbara Bair
By Will Rogers, Arthur Frank Wertheim, Barbara Bair
This 3rd quantity of The Papers of Will Rogers files the evolution of Rogers’s vaudeville occupation in addition to the newlywed lifetime of Will and Betty Blake Rogers and the beginning in their young ones. in the course of those years, the Rogerses moved to manhattan urban, and after decades of acting with greenback McKee and horse Teddy, Rogers started a solo act in vaudeville as a conversing, roping cowboy. He seemed at the similar playbill with such performers as Fred Stone, Eddie Cantor, and Houdini, and his level profession improved to incorporate an visual appeal within the Broadway musical comedy "The Wall road Girl." quantity 3 ends with Rogers’s profitable transition from vaudeville to Broadway, close to his leap forward as a celebrity of the Ziegfeld Follies.
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Paragraphs are indented. Rogers often wrote without punctuation and with irregular use of capitalization. In transcriptions of his handwritten letters, extra spaces have been added at the end of a sentence or Editorial Principles and Practices 33 phrase break where no period or other punctuation was supplied in the original, in order to make his correspondence easier to read. Italics are used to render single-underlined words in autograph texts and italicized text in printed documents. Double-underlined words in autograph texts are rendered in italics with underline.
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All other individuals named in the text whom we could identify are described in annotations, unless already annotated in a previous volume. An effort was made (through extensive archival research in Wild West, circus, theater, and film collections and through reviews of entertainment-trade periodicals and newspapers) to identify every individual or act with which Rogers performed that is named in the documents. Bibliographic source citations are given in annotations and in all Biographical Appendix entries in either abbreviated or short-title form.