PRINCE EDWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 136, 30 August 1927, Page 15

PRINCE EDWARD

PANTOMIME AND SYD. CHAPLIN As a special holiday attraction the management of the Prince Edward Theatre is putting on a pantomime, in which 40 performers will take part. At the matinees to-day and to-morrow. The chief pictorial attraction will be “Oh! What a Nurse.” It is the Syd Chaplin of "Charley’s Aunt” and “The Man on the Box,” the Syd. Chaplin of the ludicrous female disguises and winks and nods and unroarious gags, who appears in "Oh! What a Nurse.” Syd starts as a newspaper reporter, but it isn’t long before we find him disguised is a bootleg queen nd as a trained lurse. We see him li rough the most wildly imaginative

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uations that have been evolved o> a screen comedian. And the more we see of him the better we like him. It's all Chaplin, this picture, and therefore all funny. But “Chuck Reisner, who directed, is undoubtedly entitled to share honours, and Patsy Ruth Miller, who plays the runaway heiress, fills the eye pleasantly whenever she is on the screen. “Oh! What a Nurse,” which will be shown to-night at the Prince Edward Theatre, easily takes its place with the funniest comedies that have been screened. It ranks with the best pictures of Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, and puts Syd Chaplin in a definite position as one of the Big Four of screen comedians.