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for March 1933
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while making a burlesque of a Tom Mix western, Rogers as the hero eluded a whole army of bandits, and made his way to a cabin where lived his light o' love. In order to put some lip-movement in the scene, Marie Mosquini, the heroine, said, "Oh, Tom, why do they chase you like that ?" Rogers cracked back : "Because that's what Bill Fox wants 'em to do." Fox, of course, was the producer of the Mix horse-operas so successful in those days. Pretty soon the Rogers unit included a stenographer to catch these quips.
While all this was going on Flo Ziegfeld was telegraphing Rogers almost every hour of the day to come back to the "Follies." After a flock of about six telegrams in one day, came another from the Glorifier of the American Girl, saying "Did you get my last wire?" Rogers answered that one He said, "I hope so." But later on Rogers did go back to the "Follies," for the Ziegfeld association, and the shows, were a source of real pride to Will — he thought, as did all America, that they were swell.
Very likely, too, it was about this time that Rogers was first bitten in earnest by the flying bug which made him into the most confirmed air-traveler there is in the land. We remember a trip on a trim and jaunty yacht, owned by Hal Roach, from San Pedro to Catalina Island. The sea was kicking up some di-does and Rogers was just about coming out of a peach of a case of mat de mer when a passenger plane, recently put into service between Los Angeles and Catalina, flew by. Will cocked an eye, looked longingly up at the craft, sweeping by so smoothly and speedily, and volunteered to pay your correspondent's fare if I would join him in deserting the ship and making the return trip by air.
He always gets seasick. He told how when he decided to go to South America and engage in_ the cattle business, he left Oklahoma, taking a friend, ("a tall galoot who used to make me laugh, and I took him along for amusement," he added), and
the two, thinking the right way to go to South America was to start south, landed in New Orleans, only to find that they would have to go to New York to get a ship for the Argentine. The steamship company sold them the idea of going to New York by boat. Rogers got aboard, went to his bunk, started feeling a little dizzy and lay down in his bunk. He was in the midst of the swellest case of seasickness when two other fellows came in. One said, "Well, we'll be shoving off soon." Rogers said "What ?" They explained that the ship would be leaving the pier soon. You can imagine what that trip to New York was like for a chap who was sea-sick even while the ship was tied up to the pier.
Personally, Rogers is very shy, and very sensitive. He can be himself only — even in his pictures. For that reason you find that there is personal conviction behind nearly everything he does in films. Remember, in "Handy Andy," those uproarious scenes on the golf course, and his jibes at the game? He really doesn't like golf, but, characteristically, there was nothing ill-tempered about his jibes, so people had to laugh whether they loved golf or hated it. It is with difficulty that he disguises, if he does disguise it, his dislike for somebody who annoys him. He is intolerant of anything petty or mean.
Occasionally we hear somebody express wonderment that Rogers can say such pointed things about prominent people. There's nothing remarkable in how Rogers "gets away with it." He isn't getting away with anything. Simply he never says anything really unkind about anybody. Even radio recognizes this, for he is the one performer on the air who speaks his stuff instead of reading it from a script presented, and edited, in advance. There's never anything malicious in any character, or line, he speaks. There's the explanation of Will Rogers' success — just check over his film characterizations and see if you can find any instance in which there was anything unkind, either said or implied.
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