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BEETHOVEN HALL. One Week and Saturday Matinee, COMMENCING MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1877. THE BUFFALO BILL (HON. W. F. CODY) COMBINATION,
Supported by CAPT. JACK (J. W. CRAWFORD), and a full Dramatic Company in THE RED RIGHT HAND --OR-- Buffalo Bill's First Scalp for Custer, --AND-- LIFE ON THE BORDER.
Prices as usual. Reserved seats to be had at the hall, Saturday, Jan. 6, at 9 A.M.
JOSH E. OGDEN, Agent.
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Buffalo Bill (Hon. W. F. Cody) will give one of his interesting and vivid, but sanguinary and blood-chilling illustrations of border incident, in the new drama, "The Red Right Hand; or, Buffalo Bill's First Scalp for Custer." Hon. William F. Cody and another famous Western scout, Captian Jack Crawford, will exemplify how the thing was done. The play is announced for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. The scalp of Yellow Hand, a Cheyenne chief, killed by Mr. Cody on the 17th of July, together with the war bonnet, shield, gun and other property of that fallen brave, are on exhibition in the windows of Haley, Morse & Co., Washington street, near Beethoven Hall, where the exhibition is to take place.
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Buffalo Bill in "The Red Right Hand," a play written expressly to display the Hon. Mr. Cody's prowess with knife and rifle, is the truly extraordinary attraction at Beethoven Hall this week. The drama is in five acts, founded on the contest between Black Hills miners and Indians, complicated as frontier romance ever is with outlawry and blackguardism. There are numberless combats, single-handed and en masse, in which the immense bowie knife, the short repeating rifle, and the big silver pistol of Buffalo Bill invariably do tremendous execution. The interest of the piece of course centres upon this character, who is also a character of some renown off the stage. As specimens of the Indian-slaying scouts of the plains, Buffalo Bill and his companion, Captain Jack Crawford, who is also a scout not unknown to fame among readers of "Dime" publications-- are studied with a good deal of curiosity. It must be said that the ideas obtained of these terrible fellows in this play make them out much less formidable characters than the sort of free-shooters with which city populations at the East are acquainted. Buffalo Bill has a pleasantly frank and open countenance and speaks very "bad grammar" in a high nasal key, while his long and curling locks and his somewhat unmasculine figure, gait and manner convey the notion rather of a "gentlemanly" hotel or dry-goods clerk than of the shooting, riding, scalping hero of a hundred fights. A tolerable dramatic support sufficed to keep up the rodomontade and fusillade of the play, so as to give "Bill" scope to display his best paces and poses. A farce precedes the melodrama. The attendance was very good last night.
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Providence Opera House.
THREE NIGHTS ONLY, COMMENCING MONDAY OCT. 22, 1877.
RETURN of the great scout, guide and Indian fighter.
BUFFALO BILL (HON. W. F. CODY) With his Great Combination will appear in his great Border Drama, by Major A. S. Burt, U. S. A., entiled MAY CODY Or Lost and Won.
introducing the only Sioux warriors ever on exhibition.
TWO BEARS, CHA-SHA-CHA-O-FOEGO. also the champion Rifle Shots of the world, the AUSTIN BOTHERS. and the Mexican Trick Bouro JACK CASS,
MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE, BRIGHAM YOUNG'S TEMPLE,
DANITES! DANITES! DANITES.
Prices as usual. Reserved seats to be had at Opera House two days in advance.
JOSH E. OGDEN, General Agent.
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PROVIDENCE OPERA HOUSE. --THE BUFFALO BILL COMBINATION-- The new play "May Cody," written expressly for Buffalo Bill, by Major A. S. Burt, of the United States Army, was given at the Opera House last evening. It is devoted to Western life and introduces scenes of Mormon and Indian massacre, which are realistic in their faithfulness. Buffalo Bill is the hero of the piece and appears as the deus ex machina in all cases of danger and difficulty. The Austin Brothers, the celebrated sharpshooters, add to the attraction by their remarkable skill in shooting, and a real Sioux brave with his feathers and war paint takes part in the drama. It was received with great applause by a large audience, and will be repeated this evening.