Will Rogers: ambassador of good will, prince of wit and wisdom (1935)

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Record Details:

Title:
Will Rogers: ambassador of good will, prince of wit and wisdom
Date:
1935
Publisher:
Chicago : The John C. Winston Company
Volume:
Will Rogers: ambassador of good will, prince of wit and wisdom
Leaf #:
00024
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
September 26, 2024
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18 WILL ROGERS It was only a trifling ten-minute hop from the scene of the crash to Point Barrow, but it was sufficient to bring to a violent end what had started as an aerial vacation that would have taken them leisurely around the world by way of Alaska, Siberia, China, Russia, and possibly Ethiopia. Rogers joined Post in Seattle and two days later they took off for Juneau. Post was well known in Alaska because of two flights around the world, but it was the first visit of Rogers to the country and everywhere crowds gathered to cheer him and shake his hand. Before taking-off from Seattle, Mrs. Post, according to Rogers, asked him to take good care of Wiley, and he replied : "Of course you mean in the air; after we get on the ground, Wiley is able to look after himself ." ROGERS IN RARE HUMOR Rogers was in high humor on the trip. At Fairbanks, he joked about the salmon fishing of which the residents boasted. "All these boys do is brag about who caught the biggest salmon/' Will declared. "Last night an oil man brought one weighing fifty pounds to my room and wanted to put it in bed with me. I can't see the use of catching salmon when they crawl out of the water to meet you. "The first handshake I got when I stepped ashore was from a big coho. A coho, they tell me, is a king salmon that's on relief." After their stay at Fairbanks, Rogers and Post took to the air to flv the 500-mile stretch to Point