Master Will Shakespeare

My guess is that this MGM short was done as part of a promotion campaign for MGM's Romeo and Juliet which was coming out that year. Remember it would be starring the MGM Queen Norma Shearer so that no expenses was spared for her films.

Oddly enough no really known players appeared in this short, maybe deliberately so to make it look authentic. The short plays like an episode of You Are There.

Anthony Kemble-Cooper makes a competent Will Shakespeare to put it as he did, in his salad days. And in the tradition of the studios at the time, when you build sets get as much use out of them as you can.