"KICK IN" AT THE EMPIRE.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15027, 22 March 1919, Page 7

"KICK IN" AT THE EMPIRE.

The remarkably successful stajro-play "Kick In, to be shown at the Empire Theatre to-day, has been converted into a motion-drama by P.ithe, and proves to be as diverting and stirring in tliis form as in the orismil. The story is. by. Willard Mack, fnd tlie leading part is taken t>>e over charming Mollie King! Witham Courtenay plays opposite to liej-. and proves a most efficient cro >k. When he meets Molly Cary, the role taken by Mollie King, he says, ."from now on I j go straight." And so he does. But i ! fate attempts by every mea.'s unapmable to pull him back to tha ->ld life. A terrible coniplication arises vjion his palj trying to escape the police and badly wounded, seeks ref'i.}. re in his flat. The pal has stolen property onj him, and Molly.'s brother, who .is a drug fiend, steals the jeM-ellery from the fugitive. The pal"'litig«rs a .'while and then dies, so that "Molly s reformed husband is in ths awful plight of having Ixer brother to shield, stolen property on. the premises, at'd a...dead H:an whose presence he can) it explain. On top of it all eqmes ,a puhc3 iiivat-vn. j The story moves rapidly with "a surprising1 number of.-thrii'.s,- and is provided with an excellent cast. The sup- • porting items are aK> of liiore than usual interest.