“Night at the Museum” brings surprise

 

‘Will Rogers Days “Night at the Museum” was planned to honor visiting guests from California and family and Friends of Will Rogers. The tables were turned when twins, who played Will's daughters in the 1933 movie “Mr. Skitch,” presented their original script to Will Rogers Memorial Director Steve Gragert.

The script is a treasure the Memorial didn’t know existed until the Robb twins came to Claremore specifically to be grand marshals of the Will Rogers Days Parade.  Glorea Robb Morgan and Cleora Robb Galt, “Winnie” and “Minnie” in the movie, presented the carefully preserved manuscript to the Memorial. The twins, who were 11 in 1933, made their first visit to Oklahoma and were surprised to learn “Mr. Skitch” plays once or twice each month in the Memorial’s mini-theater.

They had never seen the movie poster of “Mr. Skitch,” which is on display in the Memorial.

Supporters of Friends of Will Rogers and members of the Rogers family attended the second annual “Night at the Museum.” Doris “Coke” Lane Meyer, granddaughter of Will Rogers’s sister, Maud Rogers Lane, said 34 adults and five children from the Lane family were here from surrounding states and Florida. Mrs. Meyer, who lived in Arizona and Bartlesville much of her life, now makes her home in Claremore and takes an active role in volunteering at the Will Rogers Memorial.

 

Louanne Fay, Glorea Morgan and Cleora Galt, the Robb sisters

 

Doris “Coke” Meyer and younger descendants of her grandmother Maud Lane

 

Movie poster on display in the Memorial

 

The Robb twins, Glorea and Cleora, presented an original script of “Mr. Skitch” to Steve Gragert, Will Rogers Memorial director.

 

Will Rogers Memorial Director Steve Gragert carefully examines an original manuscript of “Mr. Skitch,” a movie Will Rogers made two years before his death.

 

Frank Robson, Helen Gragert, Lu Robson and Jarol LeGate visit during “Night at the Museum”