New Britain herald., 1925-07-11
THE OBSER YER Makes Random Observations
 On the City and Its People

seats, SO he told mo, and l warent ' disagreein' with him, not by good lot. We went into the theatre and, | as we stood atalkin' and aWatchin' the crowd what had gathered, a little mite of a girl stole up tho aisle and mst grabbed the ticket out of that fellers hand. l was dumbfoundcd and was all for callin' policeman, but the fellor had started after the little girl and l folleyod, thinkm' as I might be of some help 10 him.
 I've got way down toward the stage and the girl looked back and saw that we was hot on hor trall so what does she do but hand the tickets right back to us. l started to talk to her solcmn-likc about the wages of sin bein' death, but th" Reviewer fellcr shut me up and told me she was a usher. bogGer, her pardon and told her l hadn't never been ushed before, so that's why l was nasty.
 "Wcl, we stumbled over the feet of several folks which had been left layin' careless like along the TOW, and sat down. l was handed one Of the menus by the reviewer fellGr who we'll call Bill. l don't know why we should do that, except for Bill bcin' his name.
 We must sot in them there seats for a good 50 minutes, when the band leader crawIcd up from in under the stage where he had been hidin' and the rest of the players they did the same thing. They started off to play some high-falutin' selection called Hearts and Flowers which made me feel awful sad, Purity soon the lights all went out and 1 soz to Bill, Well, they can't have the performance now, the lights has went out "Shut up, y'u idiot soz Bill, polite like, and that's all tho words that passed between us for more than a minute,
 "The pictures on the curtain was awful interestin' and they was drawed by feler who signed him self, 'Asbostos.' I hadn't quite fin ished readin' them when the lights went out and I was all for telln' the managemont, because r never
 was one to be skint out of gettin' my moneys worth.
 "I was sort of hopin' they would have some prize cattle on exhibition, but when the curtain went up, there was elaborate Twin room exposed to our gaze and I sez to myself it was a pretty funny place to exhibit cattle. and would you believe it., they wasn't no cattle in the whole show. Il was just ordinary play like We used to have up in the Opery House at home when the trav- cllin' troupe from Burlington used
 to visit US now and again.
 There was that theatre takin' advantage of a public what was
 anxious to help them along by
 patronizing' their cattle show and then they brought on regular stage
 show. l expected everybody in
 that hall was disappointed but they
 just held in their chagrin at bein'
 cheated and laughed and appaused
 for the play. They probably didn't
 want people to know that they was
 bein' cheated,
 'Wcll, that play wasn't so bad
 Bcin' bit hard O hearin' I had 2
 hard job understandin' what they
 was sayin' and l had to ask Bill several times what they was sayin'
 The feller in back of me must oi
 had St, Nitus' dance, cause he kept kiCkin' the back of my seat some. thin fearful. Ain't it funny, yor allus get right near somebody who , IS goin' to poster you all night 1t's
 god, though, that we didn't get neal
 nobody what kept talkin' out loud f "The second act vas somcthin D scandclous. It was acted out righ in a lady's bedroom and l was never
 so shocked in all my born days, no since the time old Miss Timmins f lovely hair fell off at the party dow1
 at Jeb Atkins one night. Nobod, f else minded the act. though, so , set through it, resigned like. l "When the show ended all tn,
 actors stood out on the stage boWin - and smilin' and the band played I piece and everybody had gooC I time, but the audience acted lik 1 they was disgusted and got all thei Q wraps and started to prance out t Kind of impolite, I thought. . stayed there, though and 0 lapplaused them until feller t kind of tough one, tried to ge e by and he sez, Come on there, Obe e diah. and let me out I didn't sa = nothin' to him. My names Eliiaf f so I knowed he didn't know. me t Probably one of them picked pock [ cts what I read about so I held 0
 10 my pocket and didn't speak {
 him Probably he wanted to get ac h quainted with me and then take m l, out and get me drugged and talk - my money away from me.
 l. Let me tell, I'm wise in the1 q wicked city ways"
 s Synopsis of the Morocco IS war for those patrons who can't bu n the magazine every month to req ': all the instaltments:
 1t The pleasure seeking younger ger h eration caused it all. A Morocco 1t tlapper showed her face to a Frenc V, soldier. The war was hot, It WE l. filled with a continuous successio d of deeds of courage. In fact, aft, h few days in the Sahara, all the so ,e diers were full of sand. Yet son IS wisecracker called all the hghte
 "deserters"
 h Prisoners were cruelty maltreate ,r Those taken by the Riff-Raffial
 were bound in Morocco and burnt
 amid yolumes of smoke AS th,