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Dramatic. WOOD'S MUSEUM. Mr. Marder's drama of "Buffalo Bill" was produced at this theatre Monday evening, with Mr. J.M. Ward in the principal character. The piece is in four acts. It represents the life of a hunter on the plains, the opening scenes being laid in Kansas, and those subsequent among the Cheyennes. The hunter finally falls in love, returns to St. Louis, meets with many mishaps and adventures on the way, and at last succeeds in punishing the man who has betrayed him. The scenery is new, and the piece, judging from its reception Monday, is likely to prove attractive for some time. At the matinees, this week, "The Silver Demon" is played; in this spectacle Misses Markham, Grattan, Arnott, Howitt, and other favorite performaers appear.
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The Stage [Illustration] [line] NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1872 [line] WOOD'S MUSEUM BROADWAY, CORNER 30TH STREET. [line] GEORGE WOOD [dots] Manager JAMES BARNES [dots] Stage Director [line] Two Performances Daily, at 2. P M. and 8 P. M [line] EVERY EVENING AND SATURDAY MATINEE. The celebrated comedian, Mr. JAMES M. WARD, will make his first appearance at this establishment in Maeder's sensational drama, in Four Acts, entitled BUFFALO BILL! BUFFALO BILL, a border Scout [dots] Mr. JAS. M. WARD Wild Bill [dots] Mr. T. W. Keene Frank Starke, a Trapper [dots] Mr. L. J. Mestaycer The Old Veteran, an 1812 pounder [dots] Mr. J. J. Wallace Snakeroot Sam, down on Snakes [dots] Mr. A. H. Sheldon Dave Tuff, a Renegade [dots] Mr. T. L. Connor Col. Jake McKandless, a Guerrilla [dots] Mr. Harry Stewart Firewarker Tom, a drunken Red, "Lo the poor Indian" [dots] Mr. G. C. Charles Capt. Alf, a Bushwhackers [dots] Mr. R. J. Lewis
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Perkins, landlord of the Hut [dots] Mr. T. E. Mills Raven Feather, a Sioux Brave [dots] Mr. Charles Sturges Big Mapla, a Cheyenne [dots] Mr. John Dabonay Little Elk [dots] Mr. Frank Langley 1st Settler [dots] Mr. D. Barclay 2nd Settler [dots] Mr. E. C. Coyle Lillie [dots] Miss. Gussie D. Forrest Kitty Muldoom, from Cork [dots] Miss Jennie Satterlee Mrs. Cody, Mother of Bill [dots] Mrs. D. B. Van Deren Ma-no tee, a Sioux Princess [dots] Miss Emma Moshier Louise La Valliere [dots] Miss Annie Page Sally Perkins, a Western Girl [dots] Miss Aggie Wood Lottie [dots] Miss Fanny Mills
Settlers, Scouts, Indians, Soldiers &c ACT I - IN KANSAS ACT II - OLD JACK McKANDLESS ACT III - ST. LOUIS ACT IV. - HOME. SWEET HOME.
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NIXON'S AMPITHEATRE
This long-neglected place of amusement has suddenly loomed up as the most largely patronized of any of the city, and the audience making up in quantity what they lack in quality. The drama entitled "Scouts of the Prairie," written in Chicago by Ned Buntline and introducing two frontier celebrities is the immediate occassion of the large attendance. It purports to be a vivid picture of life in the Western wilds, and is such to a certain extent, - as much, so as are the average sensational novels on the same subject, and like the latter full of inconsistences. The original plan was to concoct a play to wait the material at command, and it is apperant that the design was carried out. "Buffalo Bill" (William F. Cody), now a member of the Nebraska Legisature, and Texas Jack, both widely-known scouts, and a half-dozen genuine Poawnee Indians having nothing particular to do, stood ready to accept a historic engagements. They had never been on any but the overlooked stage, and the copper-colored portion of the troupe had generally been accredited with a greater capacity for robbing than ranting. It occured to Colonial Judson ("Ned Buntline") that here was a chance for a sensation. The "Scouts of the Prairie" was the result, and it proves to be a sensation. The Pawnees, however, failed to keep their engagement, probably on account of pressing duties with references to a projected horse-stealing expedition, and in their places have been substituted a collection of talented supers in tan-colored socks and cambrie pantalettes. Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack are on hand however, completely equipped in buckskin shirts and leggings, and fairly bristling with revolvers, knives, rifles, etc. Of course, they look like "Scouts of the Prairie," but they seem to labor under a distressing uncertainty as to what they ought to do with their hands fidgeting uneasily when silent and when in dialogue poking out the right and then the left at regular intervals, with an evident determination to show no favor between the two. Their elocation differ somewhat from Booth's and Barrett's, but then E[?]n and Lawrence are not scouts and cannot be expected to after the manner of a d[?]fden school-boy in his maiden effort must not be taken as an [word?] deuce of meagre dramatic talent or training; [?] this weakenss of voice and nervousness of deportment is but an artful [?]mption, designed to show that beneath the rough exterior of the daring scout there beats a heart as t[?]er a chicken's w[?]e his reckless bravado merely put on to conceal a delicate, sh[?] [word?] [word?] which has been [word} is [word?] [word?] [word] under the direct quisitiveness.
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to show that beneath the rough exterior of [word?] a chicken's, while his reckless bravado is merely put on to conceal a delecate, shi[?] nature. The illusion is so complete, however that one would almost [?]dy to swear th[?] these gentlemen are not actors. Wh[?] with the aid of numerous bloddy conflicts, wherein persone who a minute before, was twenty miles away, are telegraphed back, [word?] get there just in time; the beautiful Indian maiden with an Italian accent and weakness for scouts; the lovely white girl maid in captivity by the aborigines; the poetics trapper and his fellicitous homillies on the beauties of nature and the superiority of water to rotgut as a beverage; the c[?]nbric-clad Pawnees from BaIsland avenue; the inexplicate inebriane who manages to keep drunk for several days without a drop of anything; the prairie fire, the fight for life, the vengeance wreaked on the murderous redskins, and the grand tableau at the close - all three put together furnish are entertainment for the toiling masses who patroinze the abo[?] There is a plentifu lack of [?]entilation at t[?] amphitheater where in the presence of 2,0[?] bad breaths and twice as many unclean feet, is well to adopt the tactics of Casoa, w[?] "darent not laught, for fear of opening his l[?] and receiving the bad air." These defects a[?] easily remedied and should be looked to once, unless Mr. Nixon courts an indictment f[?] manslaughter by slow poison.