CAPITOL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 149, 14 September 1927, Page 15

CAPITOL

TWO FEATURE FILMS Preceded by a, great amount of critical enthusiasm, the new picture comedy, “Oh! What a Nurse,” is now being screened at the Capitol Theatre. The star of the picture, which concerns the wild adventures of a newspaper reporter, is Syd Chaplin. Ruth Miller has the leading female role. “Chuck” Reisner directed. “Chuck” Reisner, the director, probably deserves a large share of the credit for the clever gagging. Himself “a gag man” once with Charlie Chaplin, he has proved to be one of the most original laugh-makers the screen has known. And Syd Chaplin!—well, if you liked him in his other pictures, you will find he is fully tw T ice as funny in this one. The story, quite logically, gives him another chance to masquerade in women’s clothes, and, if anyone is going to do that sort of thing, Syd Chaplin is the man to do it. He has made the female masquerade a thing of unbridled joy. Playing opposite him in the picture is the lovely Patsy Ruth Miller, who is developing into one of the most adroit and charming comediennes of the screen. Jacques Lerner, the creator of the strange oracular creature in ‘‘The Monkey Talks,” which caused a sensation on the Parisian, London and New York stages, was brought from Paris by Pox Films to play the same role in the screen version of “The Monkey Talks,” which is also being shown at the Capitol Theatre.

Another special is promised from the Fox Studios with the release of their big attraction, “Seventh Heaven.” This film recently received its premiere at the Cathray Circle Theatre, Los Angeles. Chas. Farrell and Janet Gaynor created a sensation by their acting in the leading roles. Those in the supporting cast are well chosen. David Butler, Gladys Brockwell and Ben Bard are in the main supports.