AMUSEMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 December 1927, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS.

OPERA HOUSE. Alma Rubens, Fox Films actress who appears in the role of La Be'le Helene, in their production of The Heart of Salome,” which will be screened at the Opera House to-night, reaches the high point of her dramatic. career up to the present time in her characterisation of the role of the beautiful spy. This is a part that 'calls for acting of the highest order as Miss Rubens is called upon not only to interpret the oart of a daring and alluring siren but also Imat of a simple country maid. The story rn which the beautiful actress appears was written by Allen Raymond and deals with the intrigues of a Master Blackmailer, Count Zanlco, played by Holmes Herbert, axd his beautiful spy, known to Paris as La Belle Helene. Men are helpless before her wiles and jewels and a palatial home are hors until she revolts against her sinister profession. Then she meets a 1 oung American engineer, played by AN alter Pidgeon, with whom she falls in love. He too is in love with her, but since ho meets her at her aunt's peasant home where she is resting from hei Parisian adventures he does not suspect her of being the notorious La Belle Helene. The story moves swiftly from one gripping situation to the next until llelene demands the life of her lover because he scorns her when lie discovers who she is. A sword battle in a dungeon and a smashingclimax bring to a happy end a very fine entertainment. Barry Norton, Robert Agnew and other screen favourites are cast in the principal rales. Reserves at Amro’s.

COSY THEATRE. It is the Syd Chaplin of “Charley's Aunt,” “The 'Man on the Box,”' “The Bettor ’Ole,”’ the Syd Cluiplin 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, hut it is not long 'before wc 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 v.e se£ of him the better wc like . him. “Oh! What a 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 nows-

paper 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 eye pleasantly whenever she is on the screen.