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December 11, 1909. THE SHOW WORLD 29 THE RHODA ROYAL TWO RING CIRCUS HIPPODROME AND WILD WEST TWENTY WEEKS BOOKED IN BEST CITIES IN THE II. S. Rhoda Royal carries One Hundred and Twenty-five Arenic Stars and One Hundred Unsurpassed Educated Horses. The Largest, the Best, the Most Attractive Winter Circus ever Conceived. RHODA ROYAL ORIGINATES. HE ALWAYS LEADS. HIS MASTER TOUCH IS APPARENT IN EVERY ACT HE PRESENTS SIRHODA ROYAL. Suite 61-65 Grand Opera House Building Managing Director [CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Enlarges Dressing Rooms. BALTIMORE, Dec. 6.—Bernard Ulrich has acquired two buildings ad¬ joining the Lyric on Mount Royal avenue to relieve the crowded con¬ dition of the dressing rooms in the Lyric. Tunnels and bridges will be constructed to connect the houses with the theater. The large choruses brought here by the Metropolitan Opera Company has taxed the capaci¬ ty of. the present dressing rooms that additional space was necessary. Mr. Ulrich purchased an additional house several months ago and with the three houses he has a total frontage of 48. feet and 75 feet deep. He is negotiating for four other houses ad¬ joining which will give a total front¬ age of 114 feet.—CALVERT. Manager Gets a Present. BALTIMORE, Dec. 6.—Morris Uri, the manager of the Bright Eyes com¬ pany was presented last week by the business staff of the company with a handsome traveling bag containing a full set of gold-mounted articles. Ed. Epstein, his treasurer, made the pre¬ sentation speech. The show appeared at Ford’s Opera house where it scor¬ ed a tremendous hit and played to capacity business all the week.—CAL¬ VERT. Stage Receptions Resumed. BROOKLYN, Dec. 6.—Mrs. Pay- ton, who some seasons ago introduced stage receptions to the theater and made them quite the rage, has re¬ sumed them at the Bijou theater. To Form Stock Company. Pueblo Colo., Dec. 7.—Joseph D. Glass of this city left this week for New York City, where he completes the formation of a stock company that is to open at Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 12, in repertoire, in the Orpheum the¬ ater, one of the best new play houses in the South. Mr. Glass’ company will play a twenty-six weeks’ engage¬ ment there. In May the company will be brought to Pueblo, where it will play in stock at Minnequa Park dur¬ ing the summer. With Mr. Glass will be associated Ray Meyers.—COBB. New Bijou Under Way. HURON, S. D„ Dec. 6.—Work has begun on the New Bijou theater here and it is expected that it will be open about the first of the new year.—: MURPHY. Gatts Reports Good Business. George Gatts, who has been in Chi¬ cago this week spending some of the money he is making with his two “St. Elmo” companies, reports that busi¬ ness is very good on the road this season. Mr. Gatts is the husband of Grace Hayward, who dramatized the version of “St. Elmo,” played by the Gatts companies. Miss Hayward, it will be recalled, dramatized “Grau- stark” from George Barr McCutch- eon’s novel, when she was the wife of Dick Ferris. ‘The First Night” in Rehearsal. Word has been received in Chicago that the rehearsals of “The First Night,” by George V. Hobart, will begin soon. Lillian Russell will star in this new comedy and Millicent Evans will be in the cast.