RICHARD DIX IN COMEDY

Evening Star, Issue 20592, 18 September 1930, Page 9

RICHARD DIX IN COMEDY

• NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH 1 FOR OCTAGON ‘Nothing But the Truth,’ to be presented at the - Octagon Theatre tomorrow is a veritable laugh factory. It is one of tho best all-talking comedies Paramount has yet produced to satisfy a farce-hungry public, and it sets a high standard for succeeding farces to follow. Richard Dix does things in this that you never saw him do before. He pulls surprise after surprise with his artful pantomime, and definitely joins the ranks of the masters of meaningful gestures. Helen Kane, the star with the baby voice, has one of the biggest comedy purveying roles in tho piece. Others in tho cast are artists who have dealt out comedy successfully on the stage for years. Could you tell the truth, tho whole truth, and nothing but the truth for twentyfour hours? Richard Dix gives it a try, much to his embarrassment and everyone’s amusement. He makes a het that ha can tell nothing but the truth. Ho wins the bet after going through a veritable circus of bizarre and uproariously amusing situations. In trying to prevent himself from losing the bet be had to tell the wife of one of his friends that her husband had entertained a young woman at a cabaret, and to reveal other secrets that were not to the credit of his boy friends. Owing to Richard insisting on telling the truth, and nothing but the truth, here is a break between him and the heroine a few minutes before the time limit of the bet expires. Soon after the time expired Richard sets out to undo all the damage he has done by assuring all interested parties that what he had told was not the truth, and that he had said it out of deviltry, with tho result that peace is brought back to tho mind of the heroine.