Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1901 — Temperature too Torrid For Theatres [ARTICLE]

Temperature too Torrid For Theatres

The weather has been too warm for any opera house attraction, no matter of what excellent reputation to entioe the attendance of the pnblio, and (< The Defaulter” Saturday evening, although presented by a company popular to Rensselaer theatre goers, was sparsely attended. Manager Roeskams has a splendid oompany, some excellent individual talent and when “The Defaulter” is in running order and has been staged #ith special scenery so necessary to its best production, he will have one Of beet pieoes ever presented to the lovers of drama. The oompany is still in Montioello, rehearsing the other plays in their reportoire.