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'^We can't do 'Romeo and Juliet' any worse than it has been done," Will Rogers as "Romeo" consoled Sylvia Breamer as "Juliet."
IT was the balcony scene of "Romeo and Juliet." Everything was perfect, the slow, throbbing music that the orchestra was playing, the white-robed Juliet leaning from her tapestried balcony to throw a rose and a kiss
to her lover who waited beneath
Romeo was speaking. But he was not declaiming his passion in the immortal words of the Bard of Avon, he was not murmuring his wish to be a glove so that he might touch Juliet's silken cheek — instead, he was strumming a ukulele, and was singing, more or less tunefully :
"Oh, Juliet, what a lovely balcony you have !"
And she, I regret to say, instead of asking
As Shakespeare Would Not Have Said —
Balconies may have been all right in Romeo's day, but now Juliet must have a cellar. Will Rogers is superintending the metamorphosis of Romeo, a part of which process is described below.
By Emma-Lindsay Squier
him wherefore he was Romeo, as Will Shakespeare most certainly intended her to do, replied, with a swooning smile of love:
"Yes, Romey dear, but just wait until you see my cellar !"
It may be that Shakespeare, or Bacon, or whoever it was wrote the immortal love drama turned over in his Westminster niche just then. But such a thought did not worry Will Rogers, who was playing Romeo to Sylvia Breamer's Juliet, in his latest Goldwyn feature, "Doubling For Romeo."
"We know our lines as well as most Shakespearean actors do," he drawled, as the director called "Cut!" "And there's one consolation, we can't do 'Romeo and Juliet' any worse than it has been done."
We were on the spacious lot of the Goldwyn studio, where, out of doors, a balcony had been erected, with an impressionistic pine tree silhouetted against the Maxfield Parrish sky, and Sylvia Breamer was lovelier than Juliet ever dreamed of being, in a brocaded white satin gown, and a cap of pearls holding her darks curls in place.
And, whether you believe me or not, Will Rogers didn't make the worst-looking Romeo in the world. I've seen less appealing ones both in opera and in drama. To begin with, he has as noble a pair of legs as ever graced a pair of tights. I understand that the company waited breathlessly and with some trepidation for him to make his first appearance in the silk and velvet Continued on page 96
His lariat was snatched away from him, bat Will Rogers was allowed to retain his ukulele between scenes.