EMPIRE THEATRE.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15307, 21 February 1920, Page 7

EMPIRE THEATRE.

"MICKEY."

In "Mickey," Mack Sennett's special comedy drama, which is to be presented at the Empire Theatre on . Monday evening, for a season of two nights and a matinee on Tuesday, under the direction of the International Attractions, Mabel Normand plainly defines and illustrates the -word "thrill." She is as lively asNa- cluster of hair springs, and as charming as the pretty girl she is might rightfully be expected to be. "Shinning" up trees, romping over jagged rocks, rolling down a rugged hillside, running and leaping like a mountain goat from crag to crag, she takes high dives in "altogether" illusions that any Kellerman might turn her heife to envy. Then commences [the transition to Mabel Normand, the sensational "Mickey." The Normand character becomes a Cinderella with a "kick." She takes "the worst of it" as a swimmer breasts a 'billow, and comes back at her antagonists with Jjiberal interest. Preyed upon by covetous and distant relatives who believe at first that she is rich, only to conclude later that she is poor, Mickey takes matters as they come, and wins the man she loves. Further along, when the time comes to end the film— because films must end—rthere is on interesting "fight" for the possession of "Mickey's" Jpersonality. The box plan afc the Empire is filling rapidly.