AMUSEMENTS.
OPERA HOUSE. “The Heart of Salome,” which will be screened at the Opera House tonight, is a romantic drama produced in interesting fashion, leading up to many tense .and emotional scenes, with a thrill to round off with. Alma Rubens, Walter Pidgcon and Holmes Herbert do especially well in prominent parts,, with some good work from that very handsome young blood, Barry Norton. Employed by Count Zanko to carry out many of his notorious robberies, La Belle Helene finds herself in love with a young American engineer, Alontc Carol, which makes her desire to give up her old life. Count Zanko will only agree to this on condition that she sioals some important plans. She does this and only discovers later to her dismay that they belonged to Monte, who, now learning of her connection with the theft, scorns her. This great]v angering Helene, she, like Salome of old, avers that nothing less than Monte’s life will satisfy her, but when he very nearly is killed through scoundrelly Count Zanko’s evil doings, Helene’s decision is forgotten, .and she is only too ready to accept Monte’s love once again. Reserves at Vare’s. COSY THEATRE. It is the Syd Chaplin of “Charley’s Aunt,” “The Alan on the Box,” “The Better ’Ole,” the Syd Chaplin of the ludicrous female disguises and winks and nods and uproarious gags, who appears in “Oh! What a Nurse!” Syd starts as a newspaper reporter, but it is not long before wo find him disguised as a bootleg queen and as a trained nurse, We see him through the most wildly imaginative series of laugh situations that have been involved by a screen comedian. And the more we see of him the better we like him. “Oh! What ft Nurse!” which will be screened at the Cosy Theatre to-night, was written by Robert E. Sherwood, the motion picture critic and editor of “Life,” in collaboration with Bertram Bloch. They have evolved a gorgeous, gay and rollicking story, with Syd Chaplin always in the thick of the ridiculous mix-ups with bootleggers, a runaway heiress and a scheming matchmaker; not to mention being in hot water with the editor of the newspaper on which Syd is a reporter. It is all Chaplin, this picture, and therefore all funny. But “Chuck” Eeisner, who ■directed, is undoubtedly entitled to share honours, and Patsy Ruth Miller, who plays the runaway heiress, fills the eve pleasantly whenever she is on the screen.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 December 1927, Page 6
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