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Pike's Opera House. - The sidwalk and the entrance
last eveneing at Pike's gave evidence of a starling
sensation. A dense crowd collected about the
ticket office and streched out on the sidewalk on
both sidees of the door. Suppressed Indian yells
in the crowd told of the nature of the sensation. It
was The Scouts of the Prairie announced to be given
taht cuased such a commotion. When the curtain
rose, the house was comfortably filled below, while in
the gallery there was a convocation of newsboys
and bootblacks as seldom graces
this aristoratic temple. There are seats for about 250
in the gallery; there must ahve been 500 boys and
men packed up there last night.
The play is beyond all precedent in the annals of
stage lore. The author and three of the characters of
the drama take part in the performance. It has in
all the thrilling romance, treachery, love, revenge, and
hate of a dozen of the richest dime novels ever written,
and a drunk Irishman and a blundering
Dutchman are thrown in for humor. Not
less than forty braves and place faces
are killed in the course of the evening
in full view of the audience, and one chief who is
killed in one scene lives in the enxt, to be slaughtered
by a rival chief in the next.
There is one genuine Indian in the party,
an Apache lad, named Montezuma. The
Pawnees, about whose total abstience the
management expressed so much anxiety, are
not in danger of contamination, with the present
means fo communication wit hteh distant West. But
the painted Indians shouted, and shot, and danced
with more regularity than any genuine sons of the
first could have been expected to do.
Buntline as as Cale Durg, W. F. Cody a Buffalo
Bill, and Texas Jack are the leading characters.
Buffalo Bill was suffering from a severe
cold but he put vigor into his playing as well as gal[?]antry.
In one of the most effective tableaux he politely
raised his hat to the audience in acknowledgment of their
applause as the curtain was falling.
Morlacchi was graceful as ever, and performed her
speaking part well. M'lle Cariano is a powerful actress
in a contest with Indians, and reads with corresponding
force. The play bids fair to have a most
wonderful run, for its novelty is so striking, and its
subject is such a popular one with so many readers of
thrilling border talkes, that the temptation to see the
real actors in those tradgedies can not be resisted.
| 14AMUSEMENTS
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Pike's Opera House. - The sidwalk and the entrance
last eveneing at Pike's gave evidence of a starling
sensation. A dense crowd collected about the
ticket office and streched out on the sidewalk on
both sidees of the door. Suppressed Indian yells
in the crowd told of the nature of the sensation. It
was The Scouts of the Prairie announced to be given
taht cuased such a commotion. When the curtain
rose, the house was comfortably filled below, while in
the gallery there was a convocation of newsboys
and bootblacks as seldom graces
this aristoratic temple. There are seats for about 250
in the gallery; there must ahve been 500 boys and
men packed up there last night.
The play is beyond all precedent in the annals of
stage lore. The author and three of the characters of
the drama take part in the performance. It has in
all the thrilling romance, treachery, love, revenge, and
hate of a dozen of the richest dime novels ever written,
and a drunk Irishman and a blundering
Dutchman are thrown in for humor. Not
less than forty braves and place faces
are killed in the course of the evening
in full view of the audience, and one chief who is
killed in one scene lives in the enxt, to be slaughtered
by a rival chief in the next.
There is one genuine Indian in the party,
an Apache lad, named Montezuma. The
Pawnees, about whose total abstience the
management expressed so much anxiety, are
not in danger of contamination, with the present
means fo communication wit hteh distant West. But
the painted Indians shouted, and shot, and danced
with more regularity than any genuine sons of the
first could have been expected to do.
Buntline as as Cale Durg, W. F. Cody a Buffalo
Bill, and Texas Jack are the leading characters.
Buffalo Bill was suffering from a severe
cold but he put vigor into his playing as well as gal[?]antry.
In one of the most effective tableaux he politely
raised his hat to the audience in acknowledgment of their
applause as the curtain was falling.
Morlacchi was graceful as ever, and performed her
speaking part well. M'lle Cariano is a powerful actress
in a contest with Indians, and reads with corresponding
force. The play bids fair to have a most
wonderful run, for its novelty is so striking, and its
subject is such a popular one with so many readers of
thrilling border talkes, that the temptation to see the
real actors in those tradgedies can not be resisted.
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