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SCHAEFER'S OPERA HOUSE
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ONE NIGHT ONLY.
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19, '79.
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Seventh Annual Dramatic Tour of
Hon. W.F. CODY.
BUFFALO BILL
and his unequalled
COMBINATION.
Each member of this great organization being
especially engaged for the part assigned them, in the new and intensely interesting Western Drama, written expressly for Hon. W.F. Cody, by Major A. S. Burt, U. S. A., entitled
MAY CODY
OR LOST AND WON.
With New and apropriate scenery.
Brigham Young's Temple--The Morman Danites--The Mountain Meadow Masacre.----Darby McCune and his performing Donkey.
Exhibition of Fancy Rifle Shooting by BUFFALO BILL, the acknowledged champion shot of the West.
Prices as usual. Reserved seats, 75 cents, to be had at W. B. Perkins & Co.'s Book Store four days in advance. JOSH H. OGDEN, Gen. Agent.
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Amusements.
Last night Buffalo Bill and his company came before the foot lights of the Opera House stage, and saw more than a four hundred dollar audience there to greet them. That's the kind of an audience a manager likes to see. "Small, but select," or "medium, but appreciative," or "not large but composed of the elite," etc., may all look well in print, but a house full of ducats is always preferable to a manger. The drama, "May Cody, or Lost and Won," is one drawn - perhaps a little overdrawn - from frontier life upon the plains and mountains, and is a production of considerable interest to the ordinary theatre goer; the play was well mounted and the principal characters sustained very well throughout.
The principal attraction was the Hon. W. F. Cody, Buffalo Bill, himself, who is a handsome specimen of physical manhood, and a fair actor. There have been many to say that he is not the original Buffalo Bill, but only a more ordinary individual, paying the original a royalty for the use of his name; that is without foundation. He is the original Buffalo Bill, scout, editor and proprietor of a newspaper, ex-representative from Merrick county, in the Nebraska Legislature, and finally an actor. Of this there is no reasonable cause for doubt, and people who were fearing they had been gulled, may take assurance and rest easy.
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OPERA HOUSE.
ONE NIGHT ONLY.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1879.
7TH ANNUAL DRAMATIC TOUR. OF
HON. W.F. CODY.
BUFFALO BILL,
and his unequalled
COMBINATION!
Each member of this great organization being especially engaged for the part assigned [word?] and interesting Western Drama, written for Hon. W. F. Cody by [word?]
MAY CODY,
OR
LOST AND WON.
With new and [appropriate?] scenery
ILLEGIBLE
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GARRETT'S HALL.
ONE NIGHT ONLY. FRIDAY,
FEB. 21st, 1879.
7th Annual Dramatic Tour
OF HON. W. F. CODY,
BUFFALO BILL
and his unequaled
COMBINATION!
Each member of this great organization being especially engaged for the part assigned them, in the new and intensely interesting Western drama, written expressed for HON. W. F. Cody, by Maj. A. S. Burt, U. S. A., entitled
MAY CODY; or, Lost and Won.
With new and appropriate scenery- Brigham Young's Temple- The Mormon [?]- - The Mountain Meadow Masacre DARBY McCUNE, and his performing Donkey. Exhibition of Fancy Rifle shooting by BUFFALO BILL, the acknowledged champion shot of the West. Prices as usual- Reserved seats 75 cents to be had at Schaffer's Music store four days in advance.
FEB12-4td JOSH E. OGDEN, Gen. Agent.
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"KNIGHT OF THE PLAINS."
This afternoon and to-night this popular play, in which "Buffalo Bill" takes the title role, will be presented at the Opera house. The entertainment elicits rounds of applause wherever given. " Buffalo Bill" pursues the even tenor of his way which has long since made him a host of admirers alike among the old and young. Besides his band of genuine Indians from the wild west, he has a superb support by which all the good points in the play are well drawn out. The mere mention that "Buffalo Bill" and his Indians are to be at the Opera house is a sufficient guarantee that a large audience will greet him.