New Britain herald., 1916-02-21
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT
 AT THE LYCEUM

Tonights the night. The place, the Lyceum. The play, Kick In" and the occasion, the return of Mrs. Adel- aide Hubbard to the Alfred Cross Players. Everything is atune for a grand festivity. The entire house practically has been sold out Nu- merous parties will be given in honor
 of Mrs. Hubbard. The players arc on edge awaiting the going up of the
 curtain. perfect performance is
 promised. After their trump in ''The Blindness of Virtue' which played to
 big houses all last week the mem bers
 of the reorganized stock company are
 confident of a banner week in Willard
 Mack's sensational play of New York
 life, of glimpses into the underworld.
 Kendall Weston, the stage director
 who so successfully arranged the
 sWeet-pea garden in last weeks show
 has had made complete new sets of
 scenery for Kick In'' and promises
 a perfection of detail in the various scenes presented in the comedy
 Mrs. Hubbard has been given the character part in this play (which critics greet as the superior of "With- in the LaW.' She will portray the quaint old land1ady at whose house live the criminal hero, "Chicl<' Hewes, played by Alfred Cross,--and Molly,
 the young wife,-played by Miss Julie Herne. Both of these stars are ex- pected to equal their past perform ance and they should have no difficult ty in furthering their popularity as they have each played these identical characters before. Miss Herne is +lo beautiful character Molly" It is her | nature to go into ccstacies of delight when given a character to her liking, and she has been thus favored in al ! most all the plays she has appeared in since coming to New Britain
 J. Irving White, who has success- fully portrayed almost every charac- ter in the realm of imagination and life, will have a part this week to- 1 tally unlike anything he has ever ] tried at the Lyceum. He will have ] the heavy end of the wood at the l Central office. The words that make i up the title of this play arc used only | once throughout it's action. and this 1 when "Chicl<' HcWeS has it's command
 at his cringing brother-in-law. a dope l fiend, who has in his possession { $2O,0 diamond necklace for which
 the police are securing the town.
 Chick has commanded the boy tc ! hand over all his morphine. Tn, boy complies. Not sure that he ha:
 given over all the white powder, Chcl i indicates that he would search tn, ! dope user. Realizing that if he ii 1 searched, the diamond necklace vii
 be found, the boy grows terror -strick 1 en and, lifting a chair over his heat l in a threading manner. he wells a 1 Chick to stand off and not to toucF him. Chick, at first amazed at this 1 sudden unexpected attitude of defiance and courage, and suddenly realizes why the boy refuses to be searched 1 With a cry of enlightenment he locks the door and then rushes a the
 cmbling thief, who, cowed by the 1 blaze of determination in Chicks l eyes, crumbles, drops the chair and l sinks to his knees
 ''Kick In" cries Chick holding out 1 his hand, and the box slowly draws
 the $20,000 string of jewels from his | breast and gives them up.
 ' Nor quiVering intensity, this thrill , ing scene has no equal and the storm l of applause which invaria bly follows is partially one of relief for the au- ! dience.