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

Rogers Jr., Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806133155 ISBN 13: 9780806133157

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur Frank Wertheim is the editor of Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies (University of Oklahoma Press). Barbara Bair is Associate Editor of the Jane Addams Papers Project, History Department, Duke University. Wertheim and Bair, coeditors of The Papers of Will Rogers: Volume One, November 1879-April 1904 and The Papers of Will Rogers: Wild West and Vaudeville, April 1904-September 1908, Volume Two (University of Oklahoma Press). Both have taught and published widely in American cultural history.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0806133155
• ISBN 13: 9780806133157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Wertheim Arthur Frank, Bair Barbara