ENTERTAINMENTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17223, 5 October 1927, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

THEATRE ROYAL. In "Oh, What a Nurse!" Syd. 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 in order to divert suspicion from the veal culprit. Like any good newspaper i 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 i 1? 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 ad-ventures are indescribably comicaL STRAND & FRANKTON THEATREB, For the first time since she played the title role in "Grounds For Divorce," Louise Fazenda is seen as her beautiful radiant self in Warner Bros.' production of "Footloose Widows." In "Footloose Widows" she first appears as a smartly dressed New York shop girl who later develops into a mysterious beauty, blooming exotieally but with the subtle spirit of her usual excellent humour, against the background of an exclusive Florida winter :i resort. The supporting picture is entitled, "The Desperate Game," featuring "Lightning," the wonder horse. ALEXANDER WATSON. All over the English-speaking world Mr Alexander Watson's work has a i multitude of admirers, for there is probably no reciter before the public who has travelled So extensively and so successfully as Mr Watson has done in the pursuit of his vocation. The remarkable pawer which he has, in such supreme degree, of vividly reproducing in the minds of his hearers, without any adventitious aids whatsoever, the scenes and characters in a story, drama, poem, or - episode, gives his work an unrivalled " * distinction. His easy, sympathetic versatility and tuneful flexible voice. enable him to employ his power with ) equal facility, whether the author he' is interpreting is Shakespeare, Dickens, Barrie, Kipling, Masefield, W. W, Jacobs, or the hundreds of others included in his wonderfully varied and unusual repertoire.