THE TIVOLI

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6844, 23 February 1929, Page 3

THE TIVOLI

PINNEGAN’S BALL. There is fun enough aud plot enough for two ordinary good pictures in Finnegan’s Ball. And it might be added, talent enough to spread over several. This much talked of comedy is all that has been promised. It is crammed with true and infectious Irish humour so much so that last night’s audiences laughed till their sides ached. And there is present that tough of pathos without which no Irish story could bo complete —administered in just the right amounts and handled with masterly repression. While Charlie McHugh as the diminutive Cocky McFiunegau who lights the friend who has sent for him to come to America from Ireland, at every turn, has the title role, lie shares comedy honours with huge Macs: Swain, who truly is one of the geniuses of the screen. Swain plays a bullying contractor who has a big heart neath a thick hide, and the comody situations arising from the clash between Finnegan and Fiannigan aro funny indeed. Blanche Mehaffoy, a golden haired young woman of whom much may be heard one of these days plays Finnegan’s daughter, while Cullen Landis is Jimmy Fiannigan, her lover. The course of love of the pair does not run any smoother than their fathers’ affairs. A matinee will bo held to-day at 2.30 p.m. On Monday the screening will be The Golden Butterfly.