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WHEELER OPERA HOUSE
THE SCOUTS!
Messrs, Cody, Judson, Omohundro & Nixon Proprietors.
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Monday, January 13th.
In the New Sensational Drama written by Ned. Buntline,
SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE, AND RED DEVILTRY AS IT IS.
BUFFALO BILL- by the Original Hero, Hon. W. F. Cody.
TEXAS JACK- by the Original Hero, J. B. Omohundro.
CALE DURG.......................................Ned. Buntline DOVE EYE.......................................M'lle Morlacchi HAZEL EYE..........................................Senorita Eloe Carfauo PAWNEE AND INDIAN CHIEFS, Other characters from a troupe of Ned. Buntline's selection.
Magnificent scenic effects, life-like illustrations. The most thrilling and succesful sensation ever produced.
Admission, 75 cents; Balcony, 50 cents; Gallery, 35 cents. Diagram of hall at Bailey's Drug Store.
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To-night we are to have the first, last and only appearance of "Ned Buntline's" great sensational drama of the "Scouts of the Prairie." The prominent characters, " Buffalo Bill," "Texas Jack," and "Ned Buntline," are all familiar with the scenes they depict, and the peerless MORLACCHI, is a most attractive card, To quote what the St. Louis Republican says of the performance: "There is really a great deal of merit in it, and its supreme merit as a show consists in its realistic features. It requires no effort of imagination to transport oneself to the scene or reproduce the characters, for the real characters are there. They don't really do any killing and scalping, but they know how to go through the motions better than any other actors that ever lived. They have all done it when there was no nonesense about the performance."
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BRAINARD'S OPERA HOUSE.
THE SCOUTS!
Meaers, Cody, Judson, Omohundro & Nixson, Proprietors.
TWO NIGHTS ONLY.
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, January 14 and 15, and WEDNESDAY MATINEE,
In the New Sensational Drama written by Ned. Buntline.
SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE,
AND
RED DEVILTRY AS IT IS.
BUFFALO BILL- By the Original Hero, Hon. W. F. Cody.
TEXAS JACK- By the Original Hero, J. B. Omohumdro.
CALE DURG..........................................Ned. Bantline. DOVE EYE............................................M'lle Morlacchi. HAZEL EYE..........................................Senorita Eloe Carfano.
PAWNEE AND INDIAN CHIEFS,
Other characters from a troupe of Ned. Buntline's selection.
Magnificent scenic effects, life-like illustrations. The most thrilling and successful sensation ever produced.
Orchestra $1; Drees Circle 75c; Family Circle 50c; Gallery $0.25. Diagram of Hall at Brainard's Music Store.
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PITTSBURGH OPERA HOUSE.
ELLSLER & GOTTHOLD...Lessees and Managera.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday Evenings, and Saturday Matinee, January 16, 17 and 18, 1873,
Appearance of the Genuine Western Heroes,
BUFFALO BILL AND TEXAS JACK,
Supported by the peerless
MORLACCHI,
And the popular anthor,
Ned Buntline,
In the Realistic Drama, the
SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE.
FRED. AIMS' AMERICAN VARIETY THEATRE.
FRED. AIMS.....................Lessee and Manager. FITZ SIMMONS.....Stage Manager and Advertiser.
ENTIRE NEW BILL TO-NIGHT. :
Prof. Davis and Troupe of Trained Dogs, Charley Davis, Barlow Brothers, the Carletons, Charley Benedict, M'lle Henrietta, Lew Spencer, John Mulligan, Nellie Howard, Sallie Swift, Hogle and Franklin, Freemen Sisters, Lew Brimmer, James Wesley, Johnson, Alf. Buckley, Tilly Prestage.
Wednesday and Saturday Matinees at 2:30 P.M.
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THE SCOUTS PROGRAMME
FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE ORIGINAL
Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, Ned Buntline and M'lle Morlacchi
Ned Buntline's Sensational Drama of SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE
BUFFALO BILL- By the original hero....................................Hon. W. F. CODY TEXASJACK-By the original hero......................................J. B. OMOHUNDRO CALE DURG ....................NED BUNTLINE Mormon Ben....................Mr. Wentworth Phellm O'Laugherty....................Harry Gilbert Carl Pretzel...................Walter Fletcher Hazel Eye.....................Senorita Eloe Carfano
INDIANS. Wolf Slayer (especially engaged for this part)......W.F. Fleming Little Bear.....................Geo. Beach Big Eagle....................W.H. Ferris Ar-fi-a-ka........... \ / ...Grassy Chief
| As-ge-tes............. | ...Prairie Dog | |
|---|---|---|
| As-sin-ah-wa....... | ...Water Chief | |
| Te-co-tic-pown... | ..Pawnee Indian Chiefs.. | ...Big Elk |
| Kit-kot-tous........ | ...Great River |
SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY AND INCIDENTS ACT 1.—Scene I.—One the Plains. Cale Durg, the trapper. Arrival of Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack. Story of the hunt. A warning from Dove Eye. Danger. "We'll wipe the red skins out." Off on the trail. The war-whoop.
SCENE II.—The Renegade's camp. Mormon Ben. Phelim O'Laugherty and Pretzel. O'Laugherty continued drouth. Danger to Hazel Eye.
SCENE III.—Hazel Eye's poetic tribute to Cale Durg. Hazel Eye surprised. Cale Durg to the rescue. The Renegade foiled. Wolf Slayer, the treachourous Ute. Cale Durg overpowered. Search for the bottle. Cale Durg's temperance rhapsody.
SCENE IV.— Doomed to the torture post. Dove Eye's appeal to the chief. "Death to the Pale Face." Then burn, ye cursed dogs, burn. The blazing faggots. Dove Eye's knife. The severed bonds. Cale Durg defiant. "We'll fight ye all." Timely arrival. Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack. "Death to the Red Skins." Rescue of Cale Durg.
ACT II.— SCENE I— Mormon Ben, Pretzel and Phellm O'Laugherty. O'Laugherty declasires he is not a Mormon. The meeting with the Indians. What Mormon Ben wanted. What O'Laugherty wanted. Wolf Slayer's disdain of fire water. "It's the curse of the Red Man as well as the White." The departure of the Indian for the war-path. Dove Eye's invocation to the Great Spirit.
SCENE II.— Dove Eye and Hazel Eye, the two friends. Buffalo Bill declares his love. It is reciprocated. Texas Jack arrives and interrupts the meeting. "The Indians are coming." Buffalo Bill and Jack retire to ambush. How Jack ropes them in. "Buffalo Bill." "That's the kind of a man I am." How they scalp 'em on the plains.
SCENE III.— Phellm O'Laugherty and Montezuma, the Apache child of Cochise. Cale Durg to the Rescue. God's Beverage. Love Scene between Texas Jack and Hazel Eye.
SCENE IV.— The Search for Hazel Eye. "The Cage is here, but the Bird has flown." The Trail. The Search and Capture of the Forest Maidens. Dove Eye's contempt for the Renegades. Cale Durg arrives upon the Scene. "Fly, Fly, your enemies are too many." Cale Durg never Runs. The Capture and Death of Cale Durg. "The Dying Curse." The Trapper's Last Shot.
ACT III. —SCENE I.— Dove Eye and Hazel Eye. Grief for Cale Durg. Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack. Bill's Oath of Vengeance, "I'll not leave a Redskin to skim the Prairie." Dove Eye Dejected. The White Girl and Red Maiden's affections. "We'll be Sisters." Revenge for the Slain Trapper. Vengeance or Death.
SCENE II.— The German Trader. The Loss of the Bottle. Carl Pretzel's Agony.
SCENE III.— The Scalp Dance. Eagle and Wolf Slayer. "I Come to Kill you." The Knife Fight. Death of Wolf Slayer.
SCENE IV.— Phellm and Mormon Ben on their last legs. No prospect for the fiftieth wife, or a replenished bottle.
SCENE V.— Dove Eye's faith in Manitou. The Indians. Buffalo Bill's red hot reception. "Give it to them, boys." One Hundred Reds for one Cale Durg. The American Scout Triumphant. Great Heavens the PRAIRIE ON FIRE.