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NIXON's [line] MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1873 NED BUNTLINE[?] (COL. E. Z. JUDSON) [line] Will produce his new, immensely senstational drama a Frontier Life, Untitled, THE SOUCTS OF THE PRAIRIE ! AND RED DEVILTRY AS IT IS Introducing Realistic Pictures of Life on the Plains, and accurately depicting those vivide and thrilling scenes so-briliantly described by [word?] in his great Indian stories published in the New York Weekly, The personages of the drama, so well and widely known: BUFFALO BILL! (Hon. W. F. CODY) TEXAS JACK! (J. B. Omohondro.) CALE DURG! Indian Chiefs, and Wariors, represented by the real heroes themseves. The management has great pleasure in announcing the arrangement of the great star dancuse, pantorumist and actress, MORLA OCHI as Dove Kye, the Indian Maiden. The drama is throughout replete with novel, thrilling, and startling effects! never before presented on the stage. New scenery, representing realistic pictures of the great wester plains. Exciting situations. Desperate fights. THREE GRAND TABLEAUX! A prairie in flames! the Indian's treacher! The White Man's heroism! presented in a realstic form for the first time in the [word?] of the stage, Notwithstanding the novelty and excallence of these enormous attractions, the bid popular prices will be retained. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. NOTICE -- Every lady visiting the matinees will be presented with beautiful photogrpahic cartes de visite of Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, Ned Buntlide, and Moriacchi. PRICES -- Admission 25 cts. Dress circles 50 cts. Reserved seates in parquette 75 cts. Matinees 25 and 50 cts.
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NIXON"S AMPATHEATRE.
A sensational drama of the red-hot type, written by Ned Buntline, the prince of sensation mongers, will be produced on to-morrow evening. The name of Col. Judson's play is "The Scout of the Prairie, and Red Deviliry as it is." It does not need to expand on this theme, as the title is all-eloquent in expressing the character of the drama. To quote the langauge of the play-bill, "the characters of Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, and Cale Durg will be assumed by the real heroes themselves just in from the plains," the redoubtable Ned Buntline himself being one of these supposititious eaters of gunpowder. Among the native features will be several genuine savages from the plains, greased and painted with veritable scalps dangling at their belts. The lovers of realistic romance will have a chance to gorge themselves in this highly flavored food. Mile Morlacchi, the danseuse and pantcmimint, will appear also as Dove-Eye, the Indian Maiden.
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NIXON'S TURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, NEED BUNTLINE (COL. E. Z. O JUDSON) With the real heroes, BUFFALO BILL and TEXAS JACK in this new sensational drama, THE SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE! MORLACCHI AS DOVE EYE Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Each lady visiting the matinees will be presented with portraits of Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, and Ned Buntline.
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"THE SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE"
The pruprietors of Nixon's amphitheater no longer pray for a [word?] [word?] [word?] [word?] to wipe it out of existence. They have [word?] how to make it remunerative property, and altogether the most profitable entertiameint [word?] [word?] appearing to the Chicago public for patronage is that nightly witnessed within its walls. The audiences are simply immense, embracing the [word?] of Bridgeport, and drawing equality liberally from the ton of Canal streets, and the pur[?]eus of Milwaukee and Blue Island avenues. That there has not been a larger sprinkling of ladies is probably owing to a general ignorance of the muni[?]ence of the management in offering each lady patron photographs of the quaretts of stars who divide the honors of the performances. Chicago has before given evidence of her taste for the Jibbenainosy order of drama, but the combination of attractions now presented so far transcendss all former efforts in this line as to render it an absolute novelty. Columns would be inadequate to do the subject any kindof justice, and in this brief notice it will be impossible to touch a tithe of the more salient points of the performance. Two genuine scouts, of world-wide reputations for powness, have spent nearly or quiate a decade on the plains in preparation for the roels in which they now appear for the decectation of Chicago audiences. A distingushed author, of the most marvous f[?]dity, --the half of whose inky hereoes, had they been real would long ago have sent the last aborigine scalpless to the happy hunting grounds, --compunds a drama "expressly" for the occasion, adapted to the capacities and genreral bloodthirstieness of theleading per[?]stons creating a character for each in keeping which he actually plays himself. Such a triio,, backed by a heroine in the person of a perless daneuse, who never failed to carry an audience by storm, might well be ddeemed irresistble. That it was so, the fact that that immense audience endured the pestilential atmosphere redolent of every well-defined stink from a Canal street boarding stable to the Aineworth g[?]e factories, which struggled in vain to escape through two little apertucures in teh dome of the ampitheatre, and that with a tolerable degree of patience sufficently attests.
It would be niether instructive nor entertainling to follow the play through in detail. It might be guessed from its titled that whites and
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of the ampitheatre, and that with a tolerable degree of patience sufficently attests.
It would be niether instructive nor entertainling to follow the play through in detail. It might be guessed from its titled that whites and Indians, whose feeling toward one another are not of the most friendly character, would appear in about equal numbers; that each act would end with a grand tableau terminating a general scrimmage in which the dead and wonded appear by scores and in which the Indians invariblae get the worst of it; that it would abound in barbrearth escapes, and that . the scout would always turn up just in the nick of time; the whole endingwith a happy denounement, adding considerably to the aggorgate of aboriginal scalps, of the dome covered fort. All this it does and more. The audiences it has thus far drawn and is likely to draw are not critical ones, and the numberless anachronisms and incongruities in which it abounds will not detract from its popularity. It is a kind of truple warfare between the scouts, the indians, and a party of renegae whites, one of whom managed to keep gloriously drunk, though the impossibility of geeting a drop of liquor is abundantly demonstrated. The second act is deveted mainly to the kiling of Carl Durg ("Ned Buntline") and its necessary antecednets, be rushing unarmed, in the most inexcusable and uncalled-for manner into the midst of twenty or more of his mortal enemeis. The second act avenges his death and does it most throughly and successfuly, the incidents of the performer being the [word?] of an Indian by one of the scouts, the shooting of another Indian by another scout, and the scalping of both.
The author of this marvelous dramatic [word?] [word?] is Ned Buntline who as he has been [word?]mated appears in the cast. His character is that of a scout and trapper and he [word?] [sentence unreadable] are no less than Buffalo Bill and Texas jack. About them there is no sham. There they stand before you is the [word?] and [word?] to which they ahve [word?] [word?] [sentence unreadable] [sentence unreadable]