THE TIVOLI

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6843, 22 February 1929, Page 3

THE TIVOLI

FINNEGAN’S BALL AT TIVOLI.

Standing out like a beacon of fun, with a coherent piot in this year of almost plotless comedies, Finnegan’s Ball one of the funniest screen comedies of recent years opens at the Tivoli theatro to-night. It is a comedy with a clean laugh every 20 seconds, and retains the hilarious snap of the original stage play. Finnegan’s Ball points the trend of motion pictures to-day, inasmuch as all of its comedy situations are spontaneous and lit the action of tho story. And tho lnugk3 begin almost with the first foot of film, and still echo after tho curtain has closed ever the screen. The story concerns the fortunes, joys and sorrows of the Finnegans traced from tneir humble cottage in Ireland, brought to America by a big-hearted but noisily bluff friend of long standing, their er roneous exaltation to the position _of vast riches, and the- dramatic dropping of the floor of fortune out from under them. It is a true story even if it never happened, tor it has the breath of reality in every sequence, with never a false note. Blanche Mehaffcy as the beautiful colleen, Cullen Landis as her lover, huge Mack Swain as the boisterous Flannigan, Charley McHugh , um-i- nnd Apple Herrjng as Mrs. Finnegan, aro the principal ... u illo till to be desired. One of the finest bits of work is done in the picture by Miss Herring, when she stands outside the door ot her daughter, sent home in disgrace from school, struggling with herself to follow instinct and not believe tho hand of circumstance which points to her daughter’s guilt. There is to be a matinee to-morrow at 2.30 p.m.