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“Grandma's Boy in my opinion,
reatest comedy Harold Lloyd has evel produced, and it is safe to say that when it is released this picture will be hailed by public and critics alike as one of the greatest comedies ever made.”
This is the substance of the first criticism written on Harold Lloyd's | next feature It is the verdict of Verne C. Wickham, of the Long Beach, Cal., Press.
In the April issue, Wickham wrote :
ae Harold Lloyd’s latest comedy, Grandma's was pre-viewed last night at ’s Theatre before a
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For fully ten minutes at the conclusion of the showing the house was in an uproar, and the first vaudeville act had to make several attempts be fore it could start its performance.
“ Grandma’s Boy is a fiwe_ reel comedy. The plot itself has some fine dramatic possibilities.
‘Grandma’s Boy is, in . my opinion, the greatest comedy Harold} Lloyd has ever produced.”’ ;
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MOTION PICTURE NEWS, May 13, 1922.
Robt. E. Sherwood Lauds?
** Grandma's Boy.”
Robert E. Sherwood, the wellknown motion picture critic of ‘ Life,’ was treated to a preview of the newest Harold Lloyd feature, ‘Grandma’s Boy,’’ the other day, and was so pleased that he wired a review back to his publication.
Mr. Sherwood’ comments on
Grandma’s Boy were printed in ** Life ’’ on April 27th. He wrote:
** Lloyd has many splendia comedies of lengths—from one reel up; but he has never done anything better than this. It is, at time, his most ambitious work and his finest. He has told a that is funny and dramatic and contains an unobtrusive but very
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‘Grandma’s Boy’ is one of those raré ‘pictures that can be Tecommended to everyone, big or little, youthful or aged,”’
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