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Will Rogers: Entering show business
Joining the Writhe Brothers' circus in 1903, Rogers toured Australia and New Zealand before returning to the United States the following year to appear at the St. Louis Exposition and receive his first vaudeville bookings in Chicago. He made his first appearance in New York City in 1905 and, over the next ten years, made three trips to Europe and traveled extensively in Canada and his native United States. During this time, he also made his first airplane flight in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as a passenger.
From 1916 to 1925, Rogers appeared occasionally with the famed Ziegfeld Follies; he made his first motion picture in 1918 –
Laughing Bill Hide – and moved to California in 1919 to work in the Golden studios. The year 1922 proved a landmark one for the cowboy-humorist, as he began a weekly syndicated column which eventually reached a large readership through some 350 newspapers. He maintained this regularly featured column until his death in 1935.
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LiteratureWill Rogers talks to the bankers: keynote roast from 1924
On a tip from Boing Boing reader JayHavvic, I checked out this 1924 recording of Will Rogers keynoting at an annual bankers' convention, giving them the gears with as much gusto as, say, Colbert gave GW Bush. It's a must-listen. The audio comes from 78Records, an excellent site with serious bandwidth problems. So I've uploaded a copy to the Internet Archive for easier downloading. MP3: Will Rogers Talks to the Bankers, VICTOR_45374-A (1924) (Thanks, JayHavvic!)...
Published: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:46:37 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the article
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