Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1920 — ELLIS STAGE BEING CLEARED FOR MUTT AND JEFF” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ELLIS STAGE BEING CLEARED FOR MUTT AND JEFF”

I The stage at the new Ellis Opera House will be entirely cleared of all the house scenery and Properties, I for the large production of Mutt and Jeff’s Dream,” which comes to j that theatre for one night only,, Thursday, April Bth. । Every one of the seven scenes in the musical comedy will be used

in Rensselaer including the Opium Palace in Chipatown, and Case

Boulcard, Paris, both settings designed by Joseph Unban. The pro- * duction requires a special railway 1 baggage car to move from city to city, Thirty people are used in the production and a chorus of sixteen girls dance and sing during the , i introduction of the twenty musical ’ 1 numbers. - . The company which is playing Heucks Opera House in Cincinnati this week comes directly from Uafayette and goes to Logansport from the Rensselaer engagement. Seats are now being sold at Long’s Drug Store.