Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1920 — RENSSELAER NOW HOME OF HIGH CLASS PLAYHOUSE [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER NOW HOME OF HIGH CLASS PLAYHOUSE

Rensselaer is now the home of a high class plhybouse, the New Ellis Theatre, which will be opened to the public for the first time this evening. with the staging of the play, “Kick In,” a Willard Mack production which has met with favorwiherever played. . . „ The theatre is under the management of Willette Hill, a Rensselaer boy, who is familiar with show life in its every phase. The theatre as it now stands is very pretty and commodious, having a seating capacity of four hundredrand no doubt will prove popular with, the theatre going public. The interior arrangement of the new theatre far surpasses the old one, and the gallery no longer extends over the downstairs seats. The King Players will' remain here during the entire week and each play that they will present is a royalty play of a high class type.