Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1914 — Manager of Ellis Theatre Making Extensive Improvements. [ARTICLE]

Manager of Ellis Theatre Making Extensive Improvements.

i J. H. S. Ellis, manager of the ■ Ellis theatre, is making some great-, ■:ly needed and what will prove much | appreciated improvements to his 1 show house. He is placing a new entrance, which will be on the east end of the opera house and which will cut through the room now occupied by the Little Indian Cigar Store. While the new Are regulations do not specify that two entrances shall be required, yet that feature is recommended, and Mr. Ellis feels that' the public should be protected in evfery particular, and that nothing should interfere with the utmost safety to his patrons. A great many people have remained away from the attractions at his play house in the past, fearing that it was not as safe as it might be, and this excuse will now be obviated. Contractor Lewis Muster is doing the work, and the new entrance will be completed for the offering on Thursday night,.