The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving DodgeUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 1996 - 486 pagini The stage career of Will Rogers, one of America's most influential humorists, began to take shape during the years covered by this documentary history, the second volume in The Papers of Will Rogers. Between 1904 and 1908, Rogers made the transition from Wild West shows to the vaudeville stage. During these early years, he developed and polished his act, blending his homespun humor with his cowboy skills of roping and horseback riding to the delight of his audience. At the same time he began courting Betty Blake, his future wife. Their on-again, off-again relationship matured as Rogers was realizing his goal of making a career in show business. Along with Rogers's personal correspondence, Arthur Frank Wertheim and Barbara Bair present theater programs, performance reviews, and newspaper clippings, all providing detailed snapshots of vaudeville at the beginning of the twentieth century. Much of this material, gleaned from private collections, interviews, and theater-arts collections in New York City and across the country, has never before been published in any form. |
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... July 1906 4. CAUGHT IN THE VAUDEVILLE WARS 277 301 Introduction 303 Documents , July 1906 - June 1908 5. ON THE WESTERN VAUDEVILLE TRAIL Introduction 417 Documents , June - September 1908 30 32 139 271 311 415 424 BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX ...
... July 1904 To Clement Vann Rogers From Len Pedro To Clement Vann Rogers To Sisters 22 July 1904 To Clement Vann Rogers 24 July 1904 From Butler , Jacobs , and Lowry 1 Sept. 1904 To Clement Vann Rogers ca. 11 Sept. 1904 ca. 19 Sept. 1904 ...
... July 1905 Manager's Report , Keith's Theatre 168 4 July 1905 Review from the Boston Herald 174 16 July 1905 5 July 1905 To Sisters To Clement Vann Rogers 175 177 26 July 1905 To Sister and Family 179 9 Aug. 1905 From Sam A. Scribner 183 ...
... July 1907 Review from Variety ca. 2 Sept. 1907 Reviews of The Girl Rangers 14 Sept. 1907 Review from the New York Dramatic Mirror ca. 19 Sept. 1907 19 Sept. 1907 ca. 7 Nov. 1907 ca. 12 Nov. 1907 Vaudeville Notes To Betty Blake To Betty ...
... July 1908 ca. 7 July 1908 ca. 14 July 1908 16 July 1908 ca. 8 Aug. 1908 To Betty Blake To Betty Blake To Betty Blake Reviews from Will Rogers's Scrapbook Clipping from Will Rogers's Scrapbook To Clement Vann Rogers To Sisters and Family ...
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CHRONOLOGY APRIL 1904SEPTEMBER 1908 | 9 |
EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES | 23 |
Introduction | 39 |
Documents April 1904May 1905 | 56 |
July 1904 | 72 |
Scrapbook Clipping | 79 |
Oct 1904 | 88 |
Dec 1904 | 96 |
95 | 242 |
Feb 1906 To Maud Lane | 261 |
Introduction | 273 |
March 1906 To Betty Blake | 277 |
April 1906 To Betty Blake | 286 |
Article from the Claremore Messenger | 299 |
Introduction | 303 |
Article from the Marion NewsTribune | 328 |
April 1905 Clipping from Will Rogerss Scrapbook | 117 |
Introduction | 127 |
June 1905 To Sister | 139 |
March 1905 | 148 |
June 1905 Managers Report Union Square Theatre | 149 |
June 1905 Review Hammersteins Paradise Roof Garden | 157 |
June 1905 Review from the Philadelphia Item | 163 |
July 1905 To Clement Vann Rogers | 177 |
Aug 1905 From Sam A Scribner | 183 |
Aug 1905 Chases Theatre Vaudeville Contract | 190 |
Oct 1905 To Sisters | 206 |
93 | 225 |
To Clement Vann Rogers | 344 |
April 1907 London Palace Clippings from Will Rogerss | 362 |
Sept 1907 Reviews of The Girl Rangers | 371 |
Sept 1907 Vaudeville Notes | 380 |
March 1908 To Betty Blake | 405 |
ON THE WESTERN VAUDEVILLE TRAIL | 415 |
June 1908 To Clement Vann Rogers | 424 |
July 1908 Clipping from Will Rogerss Scrapbook | 449 |
NAME INDEX | 461 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 535 |
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