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Buffalo Bill Last Night.

Durley Hall was crowded last night to
welcome the knight of the plains. The plot
of his play is not as well connected as in some
other plays, but it bristles with stirring
scenes throughout, and, as the curtain is
rung down at the end of each scene, the boys
in the gallery and the young men in the parquet
and dress circle fairly yelled and howled
in the excitement of their pleasure. Buffalo
Bill's life is the ideal career of all the dime-
novel boys in America, and they applaud
him to the echo. The boot blacks squander
their hard earnings as him and all the enterprising
news-boys in the United States patronize
him with a joy unknown to them
when they put their "nickles in the missionary
box." The various characters in the
play are well represented, except the Jew,
who overdoes his business in some particulars.
The buttermilk negro was immense, and
Judge Shyster was equal to the efforts of a
broken down Chicago lawyer. The play
takes well.