Motion Picture News (Nov-Dec 1921)

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November 5, 1 9 2 1 2379 to a Record List The crowds are laughing, applauding and congratulating. The reviewers are writing more superlatives in their reviews than they have written in six months . . . "Doubling for Romeo" is a big hit. Will Rogers has pulled the surprise picture of the year ... a comedy in which every scene comes with a jolt unexpected. "Doubling for Romeo" is not only the biggest laugh'puller in a long, long while. It is a spectacular picture. There are great scenes in this picture, wonderful settings with clamoring mobs . . . There is a duel that grips you and startles you .... Add "Doubling for Romeo" to a record list —a list that includes "The Old Nest" and "Dangerous Curve Ahead." There are more coming! "Poverty of Riches!" "The Sin Flood!" GOLDWYN In Pictures Today! What They Said In New York /-M J Will Rogers, Elmer Rice \JlOOe: and WiU Shakespeare divide the honors in thecleverestcomedy of this or many other seasons. Tim ps' Doub^ng ^or Romeo" is about the most hilarious thing Mr. Rogers has ever done. World ' A tnorougnly giggly anci VVU/ttl. at tjmes boisterously laughable picture. Telegraph: ll^'X^, the " Romeo and Juliet " episodes amount to a triumph. Journal this one You will have the time of your life watching "W -7 . One of the cleverest and most amusing satires on the motion picture industry that has been produced in many a day. T T 1 1 Combination of Rogers Lie I aid. and Shakespeare as irresistible as a certain widely advertised talcum powder