STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 113, 3 August 1927, Page 14

STRAND

“OH! WHAT A NURSE” ‘Charley’s Aunt” and “The Man on

the Box” established Syd. Chaplin in the front rank of screen stars. Even brother Charlie probably never caused I more actual laughter in any two pictures than brother Syd did in those first two. And now Syd has gone j and done himself one better in his latest picture, “Oh, What a Nurse!” which is now being shown to crowded j houses at the Strand Theatre. Here ‘ is a comedy that allows virtually no let-up, in the laughter it provokes. Ii is fast, furious, rollicking fun. from start to finish. Written by Robert E. Sherwood, editor and motion picture i critic of “Life,” in collaboration with Bertram Bloch, it faced the possibility of humiliating disaster unless it I were actually very, very funny. For Sherwood, as a critic, has been merciless in his attacks upon other screen I writers, and, as the editor of “Life,” he had the comic magazine’s own reputation to uphold. “Oh, What a ! Nurse!” simply had to be funny. And in the production given by the Warner Brothers it turns out to be just , about twice as funny as anyone had a right to expect. It is truly hilarious.