Eventually, Rogers skipped the middleman and began mailing his letters straight to the Progress. Before he was a vaudeville star, before he made any blockbuster movies, Rogers became a journalist.

Over time Rogers' gentle wit drew more attention than his lariat, and he soon had top billing in vaudeville acts, including the world-renowned Ziegfeld Follies. By the early 20s he was making ...

Will Rogers was a youth from the Cherokee Indian Territory of Oklahoma who rose to conquer nearly every form of media and entertainment in the early twentieth century's rapidly expanding consumer ...

In this week's Esotouric clip, architectural historian and City of Norco council member Kevin Bash imagines a day-in-the-life with vaudeville performer Will Rogers at the Norconian Supreme Resort.

Wiley Hardeman Post first saw an aircraft, a Curtiss-Wright Pusher, in 1913, in Lawton, Oklahoma. Though he was only 15 years ...

On one level, politics is all about the performance of the candidate, so it makes sense that actors would also be attracted ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 31. -- A large audience greeted the Rogers Brothers in the new vaudeville farce by John J. McNally, which was presented for the first time in the Hyperion Theatre to-night.

He started as a child actor in vaudeville, and as a teenager began ... Still, he continued to perform, appearing on stage in "The Will Rogers Follies," "Lend Me a Tenor," "Crazy for You," and ...

Strict adherence to the Rogers formulagives The Arkansas Traveler ... became an itinerant laborer, vaudeville comedian and hobo until he joined the Marines in 1917. Most noteworthy achievement ...

8/28/1967 - 10/7/1967 Eddie Fisher and Buddy Hackett at the Palace (1967) ...