STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 15

STRAND

LAUGHTER PROGRAMME The Strand is enjoying a “Laughter Week” to the full, and large audiences nightly fill the theatre with laughter. In “Oh! AY hat a Nurse,” Sydney Chaplin’s presentation compares favourably with his work in “The Man on the Box” and “Charley’s Aunt.” A good story, entirely suited to Chaplin’s ■ s tyie of artistry, tells how a young newspaper reporter gets into difficulties when he is assigned to take over the “Advice to the Lovelorn” column of the newspaper for a few weeks. One of his answers to a question put by a romantic young lady causes a great doal of trouble, lie is sent out to plnoate the girl, and on his way, becomes involved in a series of adventures. He is captured by rum-runners, who force him to don female attire. Finally he ends up dressed as a nurse and ccntinues on his assignment. The picture 'vts directed by “Chuck” Reisner, who helped Chaplin to make all his pictures up to “The Gold Rush” and later in “The Man on the Box.” Patsy Ruth Miller, Gayne Whitman and David Torrance appear in the cast. “Blow Your <hvn Horn,” starring Warner Baxter, and a Strand Magazine, are also shown A most welcome addition to the programme is the singing of Miss Sara » tacpoole. This young performer is on ly 15 years old. but she has a voice rich in power, mellow in its lower pasand true, clear and brilliant in its higher register. It. is, indeed, a voice of ''hich any mature singer might well zf Proud. Her interpretation of “A Morning” and “Homing” was |‘harming and well merited the hearty jJPPlause from the audience. With a \l-n more emotional expression—which ul come with the development of her —Miss Stacpoole bids fair be a singer touching high places in he musical world. With such a masr as Mr. Walter Gray, she will go far ,j fulfil the promise given last night.