"NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH"
TOWN HALL NEXT WEEK Prom the earliest days of understanding we are taught the virtue of truth, and in childhood we reverence such virtue. It is only when we arrive at years of discretion that we realise how disastrous the truth may be. This world would be a most uncomfortable place to live in were it not for the virtue of telling lies. There are two comedies which are regarded as the high-water mark of humour, "Charley's Aunt," which demonstrates the virtue of deception, and "Nothing but the Truth," which proves conclusively that "the whole truth and nothing but the truth" is a sheer impossibility in these days. In this latter play, which the newlyformed Stratford layers' Club is staging at the Town Hall next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, the hero, Robert Bennett, manages to wreck a business, a happy home and his own love affair in the short space of 24 hours by merely telling the truth. Had he persisted for another 24 hours doubtless he would have started another world war. If you like to laugh, don't miss this show.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 291, 18 November 1931, Page 8
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