'OH! WHAT A HORSE'

Evening Star, Issue 19722, 24 November 1927, Page 4

'OH! WHAT A HORSE '

COMEDY AT TUB OCTAGON THEATRE. ‘Oh! What n Nurse/ which opens at the Octagon Theatre to-morrow, is said to be one of the most humorous pictures to be screened hero for some time. The star, Syd Chaplin, is capable of making laughs from the pmst unpromising looking situations, but in this production he lias eclipsed his previous attempts. From the very commencement he sets out to amuse, and keeps it up at a breathless pace throughout the picture. Chaplin appears as a newspaper reporter who dives from a ferry boat to rescue a girl, and is picked up by a rum-running boat. He is forced into feminine garb in order to divert the suspicion of the coast guards, and this loads to a number of hilarious incidents. He has an important assignment to cover, and docs not stop to change his clothes, nitli the result that in women’s clothing lie runs into a maze of trouble. In order to escape .lie seizes a nurse’s costume, but only succeeds in creating a worse tangle than before. Finally, however; everything is straightened out, and tlie story is brought to a satisfactory conclusion. hike his brother Charlie, Byd Chaplin is a born comedian, and does well in that line. Patse.v Ruth Miller is the outstanding player in the supporting east,, while another, who shares honors with the star, is '‘Clinch” Reisner.