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11" (28 cm.) x 8 1/2". Comprising the booklet of December 1, 1935 Show of Shows for the Will Rogers Memorial Fund, along with the program for that show, listing Shirley Temple and Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson among the acts, and with two studio publicity photographs of Shirley Temple and Will Rogers in the preceding few years. According to the program Shirley and "Bojangles" tap danced up and down the aisles, passing the hat for charitable contributions, and then auctioned a doll, although no further information concerning that doll is given. At the beginning of the program, seven-year-old Shirley Temple was designated to unveil the memorial plaque, and then, impromptu, asked to say a few words. She relates in her 1988 autobiography, Child Star, "The others before me had said everything. ïI loved him, too', was all I could add".