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...Buffalo Bill and combination opened at Heuck's 10 in 'The Knights of the Plains,' which was repeated 11, 12, 'May Cody' being substituted for the rest of the week. Mr. Cody's Indians, donkey and beer proved big attractions for the gods. The acting in general was indifferent. Charles Wilson, however, played an Irishman well, and Messrs. E. L. Mortimer, J. T. Melville and J. L. Matthews also deserve notice, while Miss Lydia Denier, who personated the leading feminine characters, was fully up to their requirements. Mr. Cody's Combination disband here, he going to San Francisco.
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San Francisco.
April 1.
CALIFORNIA THEATRE.--Buffalo Bill has packed this house to the roof every night. Boasts of the taste and hypercritical audiences of California are easily met with the fact that Rose Eytinge and the Union Square co., even with Jeffreys-Lewis added to them, failed to draw, while the unbounded enthusiasm of the crowds that fill the boxes, dress circle, parquette and galleries (as well as the treasury) of the California, as long as they have a "star" or an attraction--that suits them. This is the cry of managers and critics: "Oh! there is no place on earth like San Francisco for the business--if the people get what they want." It seems they have it--and to the winds with boasted aesthetics, to the marines tell of the story of Juliet and of the history of Rosalind in the woods. They want poetic Buffffalo Bill with his handsome figure, his natural grace, supple form and ignorant ease--his longhaired half-breeds and their barbarous war dances. They want the red-headed Irishman and the mulish donkey and his fun, as presented by Felix Morris to roars of laughter. They want old Brigham Young in the person of Mr. Bassett to groan at, and "guy," and their delight knows no bound at the various disguises Mr. Bock assumes as John D. Lee. Next week The Knight of the Plains will be produced in grand style--a real prairie fire on the stage and real rain to put it out.
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-- Edenburg is mad because Buffalo Bill gave that once prosperous place the "go by." There is one consolation to know that Edenburg sustained no great loss by Bill's rash act.
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BUFFALO BILL played in Oawego last night. It is said that he has made $135,000 with his blood and thunder drama.
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MANY of the entertainments that were expected to visit Watertown this winter will not come. The proprietors saw the notices of snow in the Ogdensburg Journal and immediately went south.