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Will Rogers was a true American icon. His newspaper column was read daily by 40 million people, and as radio entertainer, lecturer, movies star, and homespun sage, he was one of our most popular entertainers.
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All photographs accompanying the chapter openings and appearing in the inserts following pages 80 and 208 are used courtesy of the Will Rogers Memorial and Library, unless otherwise specified.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material or to print unpublished material: Constance Morrow Morgan: Material from the diary of Elisabeth Cutter Morrow, December 1927, Sophie Smith Collection, Smith College. Reprinted by permission. The New York Times: F. T. Birchall memorandum to proof room (May 19, 1930); Arthur H. Sulzberger to Adolph Ochs (Jan. 17, 1927); Edwin L. James, letter to reader (Jan. 17, 1933); Ochs telegram to Will Rogers (Jan. 21, 1930); F. T. Birchall memorandum to Ochs (Nov. 18, 1931): unsigned telegram to Will Rogers (Feb. 1, 1933); McCaw to James (undated). Courtesy of the New York Times Company.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Yagoda, Ben. Will Rogers: a biography / Ben Yagoda. p. cm. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8061-3238-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Rogers, Will, 18791935. 2. EntertainersUnited States Biography. 3. Humorists, AmericanBiography. I. Title. PN2287.R74 Y34 2000 792.7'028'092dc21 [B] 99-056657
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Copyright 1993 by Ben Yagoda. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First printing of the University of Oklahoma Press edition, 2000.
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FOR WILLIAM VANN ROGERS AND FOR GIGI
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Contents
Author's Note
ix
Introduction
xi
Chapter 1 Indian Territory
3
Chapter 2 The Ranch
21
Chapter 3 Abroad
51
Chapter 4 Meet Me in St. Louis
67
Chapter 5 In Vaudeville
89
Chapter 6 Together
117
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Chapter 7 Ziegfeld
135
Chapter 8 Hollywood, I
159
Chapter 9 "All I Know Is Just What I Read in the Papers"
183
Chapter 10 Self-made Diplomat
221
Chapter 11 Hollywood, II
259
Chapter 12 Reversible Figure: Will Rogers and Politics
285
Chapter 13 Ceiling Zero
305
Epilogue
333
Acknowledgments
337
Notes
341
Index
391
Illustrations follow pages 80 and 208.
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Author's Note
In 1930, F. T. Birchall, managing editor of The New York Times, sent a memo to the newspaper's proofroom concerning the man who at the time was its only signed columnist. He wrote: "Please do not correct Will Rogers's English or spelling. His little pieces are unique because he makes his own English. When you 'improve' it you are taking away part of the personality he is selling to readers."
Rogers's pieces weren't "little"they're much fresher and sharper today, for example, than any Times editorial of the timebut otherwise Birchall was on the money. In quoting from Rogers's letters and unpublished manuscripts, I resisted any urge to clean up grammar and capitalization. Punctuation was a little more complicated, since Rogers, always in a hurry, habitually used commas where periods were meant to be, Here is an example. I generally put the periods in. He typed fast, of course, and made a lot of spelling mistakes. I corrected some obvious typos, left the other errors in, and used "[
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