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Show Improvements at the Theatre. Since the present proprietors tu-jk possession of the theatre thy have kept constantly employed a largr. force of mechanics tearing out. rebuilding, re-building, remodelling, changing the internal arrangement and appc.tr-ance, appc.tr-ance, and that.of the outside of the mammoth structure; and yet the improvements im-provements move on. At present the front of thu building is being entirely changed in appearance, appear-ance, and like all of the other improvements, im-provements, it adds beauty and accommodation ac-commodation to the place. The wide recess, or porch, is being made into a commodious vestibule, by means of a neat, ornamented front erected on tho line of the centre of the two pillars. The box oQiee remains in the usual place, but enclosing the large opening will prevent gusts of cold air from blowing into the main building. Three massive doors opening from the front give easy access and exit. ex-it. Enclosing the front makes a large room over the vestibule which leads off from the dress circle, and will serve as a withdrawing room for that part of the house. A lnrgc porch- is to be erected on four pillars over tho outside steps, and on the top of the porch will be a long open promenade which can be reached from the dress circle through the withdrawing room, and three large sliding windows. In warm summer nights, this open air 1 promenade will be found a great luxury, lux-ury, and the south front of the theatre will present a decidedly more handsome hand-some view. In addition to the large heating stoves now in the parquette, extensive furnaces are being built and fast approaching ap-proaching completion in the basement. base-ment. Directly under tho front doors of the building, away from the many timbers of the house thus being safe from fire is a large double chamber heating furnace, with four three foot j pipes to convey the hot air through i registers into the auditorium. Two ; open registers will be placed just in-; side the parquette entrance, one on cither side, between the doors and j chairs; thus the warm air, as it comes 1 through the registers, will be forced into the main building by the air draft through the doors. Two other registers will be placed in the vestibule Another heat- ing furnace is being built ' undo- the footlights, tho hot air pipes ! connecting with registers on the stage and in the front of the parcmcUc, altogether making as complete an i arrangement for wanning the entire house as could be desired. Another improvement, noticed in the parquette last night, was the new chairs, two hundred and twenty-eight of them having arrived and been placed. Tlic new chairs are easy, upholstered with scarlet enamel cloth on the bottom and at tho back, and are from ttie extensive establishment of Abernathy Brothers, Leavenworth, Kansas. The comfortable new seats will be duly appreciated by theatre goers, while they give a more finished appearance to the house. One can scarcely be loo eulogistic, so much having been accomplished in so short a time by those having the details in chorgc, and we are assured that when the improvements are completed the theatre will excel most of the eastern ones in everything, and be equalled by but few in the country iu all of internal in-ternal and external arrangements. |