Will Rogers Engaged For Talking Comedy
Will Rogers, Ziegfeld Follies comedian and famous raconteur, ■who appeared in western comedy pictures some years ago, has been engaged for a Fox all-tahkie, “They Had to See Paris.” Irene Rich has been selected as Rogers’s leading ivoman. 2Vie popular Will was noted in his silent screen days for a distinct aversion from love scenes and his pictures lacked completely the conventional close-up and fadeouts. More recently he visited London professionally, being engaged at high fees to give extempore humorous after-dinner speeches.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 750, 24 August 1929, Page 27
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