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Show Auditorium Q To Re-Open Grand Ball Under $1,000 Improvements. The Auditorium, after a highly successful suc-cessful roller skating season, has closed for improvements and next Saturday 1 will reopen for dancing. While the interest In roller skating has increased rattier than slackened, the manage-raent manage-raent of this popular resort has felt Inclined to favor students who urged that the big place be opened for dancing danc-ing before they arc compelled to return re-turn to their homes, hence the change at the present time. Great Improvements. When the Auditorium opens next Saturday the patrons will find some - marked and' very agreeable changes ' there. More than $1,000 is being spent . ' in beautifying the interior of the structure and putting- the floor in perfect per-fect condition, and the result Indicates that ttic money has been well spent. Paint lias been used with lavish hand and with artistic conception. The ' celling Is a yellow, the walls a lighter yellow, a four-foot wainscoting is of oak, and the arches and furnishings are In I Ight blue. The unsightly arches and Iron rods are made attractive rather than confusng, and the entire interior has taken on the cheerful, comfortable, cozy appearance lacking heretofore. The new decorations are carried Into the waiting rooms, and to the entrance, and many small con-iflh con-iflh venienoss have been added. The floor, which has been but little damaged by ' the skating, Is now being polished and the promise Is that It will be In splendid splen-did condition Saturday night. In the present Improvements as in all matters mat-ters since' the original opening, the Auditorium management has not stinted in the expenditure, and the public gets the benefit. Good Music. I The music for this dancing season will be furnished by an excellent or- chest ra under the leadership of Joseph 1 A. Smith Jr., who during tho latter part of the winter directed band mu-'. mu-'. sic for tho roller skaters. Mr. Smith is a musician of accepted ability and has gathered about him several of the city's best artists so that there is little doubt that the Auditorium will have acceptable dance music, i A special effort to make the "opening "open-ing night" a brilliant one is being made and thore Is reason to believe that it will be such. It is certain that those who attend Saturday night will meet a very pleasant surprise, sur-prise, for besides Its splendid spaciousness spacious-ness the Auditorium is now a thing of beauty and a Joy forever. Tho management man-agement is said to be Immensely pleased at the patronage during the roller skating season. The last night of this, Saturday, March 21, Is said to have been marked by the largest crowd ever on tho lloor. |