SPARKLING FUN

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3298, 9 August 1943, Page 5

SPARKLING FUN

“NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH” PROGRAMME AT REGENT BIGGEST LAUGH YOU EVER HAD When Bob Hope makes a bet of 10,000 dollars that he. can tell the truth’ for twenty-four hours, you can bet considerably more than the price of admission to the Regent Theatre, that what will folloiv will be highspeed, gag-glorious comedy. Hope makes the wager in the new • Paramount farce comedy, “Nothing But The Truth,” which gambols into the Regent Theatre showing Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, co-starring Paulette Goddard, and featuring a comedy cast packed solid with favourite names, including Edward Arnold> Leif Erickson, Helen Vinson, Catharine Doucet, Glen Anders, Grant Mitchell, Rose Hobart and Willie Best. Right now Hope is just about tops in film comedy, following sock-suc-cesses in such comedies as “Road To Singapore,” “Road to Zanzibar,” and “Caught In The Draft.” His film following has been increasing by leaps and bounds with each new picture, until now his eminence as a comedian is almost undisputed. As for Paulette Goddard, that young lady has been shuttling back and for|h between comedy and drama the past few seasons. The beautiful star recently was seen opposite Charles Chaplin in “The Great Dictator,” as Fred Astaire’s dancing partner in “Second Chorus”, and<»then as the unscrupulous girl-of-the-world of “Hold Back the Dawn,” in which she appeared with Charles Boyer and 'Olivia de Havilland. In the last mentioned film, Paulette went almost completely dramatic, in contradistinction to the many comedyroles she has played, two with Bob Hope. These roles with Hope were in “The Cat and the Canary” and “The Ghost Breakers.”

' “Nothing But the Truth,” which is adapted to the screen from a famous stage comedy, concerns itself with a bet made by Bob Hope, in the role of a stockbroker tha t he can tell the truth for twenty-four hours. Sounds like great fun! FINALLY TO-NIGHT INTERNATIONAL SQUADRON ” “International Squadron” will show finally to-night at the Regent Theatre.