AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 July 1929, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

KVEfIYBODYB PICTURES. ’ BALL”—TO-NIGHT of motion pictures to-day in as much as all/:of. its .comedy situations are v sppptaiicous and fit the action of the .atopy./: And file laughs begin lalniost : with iue first-foot qf film and still echo . aftprj.the . curtain has closed .over the • ••Streep. Tlio. story, concerns the for- : ippes, . joys" and sorrows, of. the Finpegsnsj traced-from their humble cottage in .Ireland,. hrought. to America by>q big hearted hpt-noisily bluff (friend qf. Jong standing; their erroneous exalvtaiiop- $0 the' position of, -vast riphes; ■aud the . dramatic dropping :iof the O flop.r, of ...fortune out from under them. 5*41 , *B’*a'true story even if it neyer hap-! T. ipened, for it has the > breath of re«l ity in every sequence, / with never a false note. ' Blanche Mehaffey, as :the betiutif iif colleen; Ciillen ’; Landis as her . layer, huge. Mack Swain as. .the boisin. ; 'Charley ■'Mdpgh. (as liitie’Finpegffn and Aggie jEterring. as. Mrs Finnegan al’e the principal players and are alLto 'be desired. One of ther finest .hits of work in the picture is >. done by Miss Hqryiiig when sbp stands outside the dpor of her, daughter, sent' .home in disgracelJrqinTschobl, : struggling’-, with ‘ herSclte.tb jfqllow instinct, and not believe..the hand of circum-; stance which points,to .her daughter’s; guilt; This littieVscbhb win bring. aud- ! :!■ .ible sobs ;|n /the theatre ito-night. The titles are incredibly funny, but no

fqnpierl :t||ai) ,'t}ip vsitufi£}ons they, am<V : ;pl jfy ..: 4R <■■ that i <We(are. remarkably' f fflW'P^planatpry.ititles, a.sure mark of i a'welUnjade pi'eiure. • iltf js a isafp-heti'ithat every person of- ’ .'' (in 4his; 'town will see: MFipnegqpls /’ iSvery other per- : • ,<fim/wi}l •dp wc}l to follow their ex-' ' , ample. V j , 1 :Will also ho sfepwn ; tonjght. Orchestral selections anirl usual pricps. ~7, /(, ■' ,' ->%’ - ■'• :' Tuesd«ay : ;' < ‘^.Certain ypnfig Man.”