New Britain herald., 1918-01-26
Town Topics

OrSOn F. Curtis in his inSistent at tacks on the administration and his refusal to serve on committees, espe- c1ally the salary committee which obviously may bring itself into bad re- pute with a certain clique of voters. Is causing no little talk among the politicians. "What does Curtis want % is the oft repeated question. Some aver that he is merely anti -Quigley
 and determined to bring discredit up
 on the administration for his person
 al satisfaction. Others think he is
 public spirited citizen intent upon
 cleaning up City hall. Still others
 think that he has an ax to grind of
 his own. There are others who think that all three elements enter into tha
 situation. But here arises the o,1cs- ton of what that fax might be, since he has stated over his own signed name in the press that he has no am- bftion to be mayor, This statement is also strengthened by the unverified report that he has approached at least three prominent men to urge them to be a candidate for mayor While there is no reason to think that the following idea is necessarily the correct solution, there are novcrthe- less, many men conversant with poli- tics who think that it may not be far from true.
 Alderman Curtis is at present deputy factory inspector of the state labor bureau. Wouldn't he like to be chief of that department? There are certain state politicians who have their own Congressional candidate already picked and want the votes of the New Britain delegates. But to get the votes of the local delegates means that Mayor Quigley. @ Congressional aspir- ant, must be defeated decisively To cast discredit upon his administration will assit in this, If Quigley's ma- chine is smashed at Curtis offensive it might be assumed that he would take the reins of the G. O. P. here. Thus, he might be able to deliver the local delegates to the state politicians. AS a reward it might be assumed that he could have about anything he wanted from the inner ring. Now the ques- tion is being asked, would he like to be chief of the labor bureau?
 At the initial meeting of the salary revision committee D. J. Sullivan, in clerk, remarked that the incumbent was no friend of his-that he did not even know the name.
 Well, I do," prompted Chairman A. E. Eichstaedt, "it's-it' t's-it's-wen, I've forgotten
 Thanks for the compliment. thought Assistant City Engineer Edward Me- Carthy when he learned that Chair man Eichstaedt, in telling what capable man he was, added that "he uses his own autOm obile for the city use sometimes, too.'
 
 The assistant engineer does not own an automobile but nevertheless one l likes to have people say nice things 1 about them. l
 On Monday the Lyceum theater ! will again be inhabited by actors and ! actresses that live and breathe after l g. lapse of about a year during which l time the movies or "canned drama 1 as some are wont to call them, has held sway at this once premier play l house. Time there was a few years | ago when all of the leading stars of 1 stagedom frisked and frolicked, thun- l dered and roared, or cried and sobbed ] on the Lyceum stage. For some 1 reason however, the patronage did not | warrant a continuance and when T. l J. Lynch turned his lease over to 1 George Levitt about a year ago these same patrons put up a loud wall that they did not want all movies. But 1 they got them and for several months the films have reigned supreme until [ there crept in a growing demand for ! high class vaudeville. In response to ] this demand the Iyceum theater has been entered on the vaudeville cir cult and inasmuCh as it is now afhilat- ed with the Poli circuit. through the l United Booking Agency which is headed by Keith Albee and Proctor, ] some good performers ought to be 1 seen here. Everybody knows that hundreds of good New Britain dol l lars are turned into tloe coffers of the Hartford theaters because of too much motion pictures. Now is the l time for the theater-g going public to pause Let the lovers of variety en- thuse, and the lovers of real drama ] take heart and hope that the intro duction of vaudeville on the stage l of the Iiyceurn may only be a fore 1 runner of the return of the legitimate ] plays.
 Next Saturday and Sunday will be 1 eventful days, particularly for those registered in first class and also for the doctors who will be called upon l to give of their time and services to examine the same.
 The New Britain War Bureau is strongly pro-American institution, so much so that made in Germany" cannot be tolerated even in print. 1 Clerk Earl Kisselbrack has a small 1 fancy clock the face of which is now somewhat disfgured. The reason is that after making the purchase the clerk was disgusted to find that, print ed in small letters, was the phrase l