Will Rogers stared his stage career in variety in New York, doing cow-boy oF rope-spinning.
For Brosdway aware of his peculiar type of drawling humour, and he was made. The great producer Ziegfeld udded him to the east of his Pollles, in which he played for about fen years, from 1914 to 1924, During this period, also, he made his debut fon the screen, inthe then silent ims. The advent of the talking screen, however, gave him his great opportunity asa film actor and he went from one success to another.
In spontaneous humour his friend, Cobb, almost outbid Rogers once. Ai dinner of the famous Friars Club fu New York, Will Hays. spoke warmly about the reception which Manhattan had given to Rogers when he arrived, an unknown youth:
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