"OLD BILL" RETURNS.

Shannon News, 8 March 1927, Page 4

"OLD BILL" RETURNS.

FRIDAY'S SPECIAL FEATURE. The instantaneous success of "The Better 'Ole" when produced by Mr. and Mrs Coburn at the Greenwich Vil iage Theatre, in September, 1918, has gone down in the annals of stage His tory as one of the most phenomenal "hits" of the American theatre. What the actors of the legitimate stage accomplished for 'Old Bill* and "The Better 'Ole" Syd. Chaplin is doing on the screen, for he gives the "old 'un" a touch of humor that is infectious and so memorable that it will live. Many of the situations are hilarious and shriekingly funny. In one sequence, •Old Bill,' gruff, stolid, with a heart of gold, is discovered with his regiment in the very midst of the late unpleasantness. Whether under fire in the trenches or resting in a French village behind the lines, he is the same methodical nonchalant old trooper, fatalistie and hilariously resourceful. Chaplin's portrayal might well be called "the great impersonation," for never have funnier situations been more humorously handled than the ones which find Syd" and a war companion! featured as th'e theatrical property horse at one of the amateur entertainments behind the lines. The picture will be shown in Shannon on Friday night.