PRINCE EDWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 137, 31 August 1927, Page 15

PRINCE EDWARD

“OH! WHAT A NURSE” “Greatest of Female Impersonators” is the title which the critics of the silent drama have conferred upon Syd Chaplin, star of Warner Bros.’ production of “Oh, What a Nurse!” directed by Charles “Chuck” Reisner. Mr. Chaplin has been a prominent figure in the history of the American screen as manager of his famous bother Charles and as a moving picture comedian in his own right. Who will forget Syd in “The Submarine Pirate,” the first large comedy picture of that type, or his masterful characterisation of the lunch waggon cook in “A Dog’s Life.” He also could not resist the temptation to play bits in “Shoulder Arms,” “The Pilgrim” and “Pay Day,” all starring Charlie Chaplin. In “Oh, What a Nurse!” Chaplin appears as a newspaper reporter, who dives from a ferry-boat to rescue a girl, and gets picked up by a rumrunning tug, and who is forced into the costume of a bootleg queen m order to divert suspicion from the real culprit. Like any good newspaper man, the reporter, with an assignment to cover, does not pause even to change his clothes when he has a job to be attended to. The result is that, in the bootleg queen’s outfit, he runs into a maze of trouble, and, to get himself out of it, seizes a nurse’s costume. From then on his adventures are indescribably comical. Like his brother Charlie, Syd Chaplin is a born comedian; an artist in his line. And his line is one that aids greatly to the hilarity of picturegoers. To-night the management of the Prince Edward Theatre will have as its guests the schoolboy football representatives from Wellington, Manawatu and Waikato. Georgia Hale, prominetly cast in the Fox picture, “The Holy Terror,” is an expert swimmer. In her first appearance before the camera she swam six miles in New York harbour. * * * Augustas Balfour, 70 years of age, who played the load in Herbert Brenon's first picture, “All For Her,” made for the old Imp Company six years ago, is playing a small part in “Sorrell and Son,” Brenon’s first independent production for United Artists, now being ! made at the west coast studios.