HIGHARD DIX’S THIRD TALKIE

Evening Star, Issue 20591, 17 September 1930, Page 7

HIGHARD DIX’S THIRD TALKIE

1 NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH ’ FOR OCTAGON

Richard, Dix’s all-talking picture, ‘ Nothing But the Truth,’ which will commence screening at the Octagon Theatre next Friday, is undoubtedly one of his best pictures. ‘ Nothing But the Truth ’ is that favourite of farce successes revamped for the screen, and refurnished with newer and better comedy situations, and an adequate trimming of music, singing, and dancing. Dix plays the part of a young man who makes a wager that no can tell nothing but the truth. Ho wins the bet after going through a veritable circus of bizarre and uproariously amusing situations. The play is chockful of rich humour, and docs not lag for an instant. Helen Kane’s singing in her famous “ baby talk ” manlier is a feature of the production. The comedy comes from the fact that the hero had hot his three associates to tell nothing but the truth for twenty-four hours, the stakes being IO.OOOdoI. in trying to prevent himself from losing the bet, he had to tell the wife of one of his associates that her hnsbaml.had entertained a young woman at a cabaret, and to reveal other secrets that wore not to the crcditfof Ids associates. In retaliation the three associates put the hero >n an embarrassing position in reference to-tlie 'heroine, daughter of one of the associates.- witli the result that, a low minutes before the time limit of the bet expiring, there is a break between him and the heroine. Rut soon after thf time expires the hero sets out to undo alb the damage ho had done ny assuring all interested parties that what he had told was not the truth, and that he had said it out of deviltry, with the, result that peace is brought back to the mind of the wife of the associate and to that of the heroine.