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Albums hold rich memories for Will Rogers, Jr. (above, left), of ranch life with his famous dad. Sister Mary's on the couch with their 'parents, brother Jim ("the real cowboy of the family") on the floor with the pet calf. Closeup below: Jim, Will, Jr., Mary, and Mr. and Mrs. Will Rogers.
Will, Jr., portraying his father. The casting was inevitable, for — as the camera revealed — the resemblance between the two is uncanny: They look alike, with the same husky build and weatherbeaten complexion. They move with the same casual, outdoor ease. They grin with the same touching innocence, as though their hearts were wide open for the whole world to see. And, while the drawl is not so marked in the son, they even talk alike — in the same humility, the same earnest simplicity.
But there is a difference between the men, and it's a tremendous one — as wide as the gap between two generations. For the father was born in a simple world of sound values and basic beliefs. It was his unique achievement that he never lost those beliefs, nor his native simplicity — in spite of fame and fortune, in spite of a world that was fast losing its innocence. The son, however, grew up in the Depression, born of a generation that had no beliefs. It is his unique achievement that he has outgrown cynicism and found the simplicity — the sound values and basic beliefs — that "got lost somewhere between the two wars. . . ."
"You don't have to give your age," Mary Rogers reminds her famous brother, every time she sees a story about him in print. Will, however — who comes right out with everything — readily admits to being born on October 20, 1911. He and Mary also have a brother, Jim, who now lives with his wife and three children on a cattle ranch near Bakersfield, California.
"He's the real cowboy of the family," Will says, with genuine admiration. "He used to be a roper in amateur rodeos." (Will himself is a better "trick roper," but can't "straight-rope" as well.)
Pretty Mary is at present in Mexico, but she used to be on the stage. "At least," she insists, "you might say I'm the youngest."
Will was born in New York City, for Rogers, Sr., was playing two-a-day vaudeville on Broadway at the time. Like so many children with a parent in show business, he was raised and educated all over the country. Will attended grammar schools at Rogers, Arkansas, and Chelsea, Oklahoma. In 1919, the Rogers family moved to Los Angeles, where Will enrolled at the Urban Military School. Next year, the family moved to Beverly Hills, and Will transferred to a school there. He finally (Continued on page 90)
Good Morning With Will Rogers, Jr. is seen over CBS-TV, Monday through Friday, from 7 to 8 A.M. EDT. (Also re-broadcast from 7 to 8 A.M. C.D.T.) .
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