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“The Scouts of the Prairie" at Niblo’s.
The Jong-promised production of The Scouts
of the Prairie" at Niblo's was accomplished last night
without accident. A densely crowded base greeted
the heroes of the drams, and these were also the
genuine heroes of many a feat on the Western
prairies a piquancy and Interest were given to
appearance seldom felt upon the appearance
of real actors. The drama, of which we understand
Ned Buntline is the author, is about everything in
general and nothing in particular. Every act ends
with a fight between the scouts and the Indians
the Art act being still further embellished by a
characteristic war dance. The Indiana, as well as
the scouts, are the genuine article. The real hero
of the piece is Cale Durg, the part represented by
Ned Buntline, the American Balwer. Mr. Judson
(otherwine Buntline) represents the part as badly as
it is possible for any human being to represent
it and the part is as bad as it was possible to make
it. TheI Hon. Willian F. Cody, otherwise "Buffalo
Bill '' And occasionally called by the refined people
of the Eastern cities “Buffalo Bill,” is good
looking fellow, tall and straight as an arrow,
but ridiculous as an actor. Texas Jack, whose real
name, we believe, in Omohundro, is not quite so
good looking, not no tall, not so straight and not
so ridiculous. Mile. Moriacchi, as Dove Eye, is only
an insipid forest maiden, but the worst actor of the
let is Senorita Carfana, the representative of Hazel
Eye, a young white woman who is very tall, very,
straight and very virtuous. She is worse, even,
than Ned Buntline, and he is simply maundering
imbecility. Her first appearance is ludicrous
beyond the power of description, more ludicrous,
even, than Ned Buntune's temperance address
in the forest. To describe the play and its reception
in alike impossible. The applause savored of
derision, and the deriston of applause. Everything
was so wonderfully bad that it was almost
good. The whole performance was so far outside
of human experience, so wonderful in its daring
feebleness that no ordinary intellect is capable of
comprehending it that no ordinary mortal can
discuss it at any length with good taste and good t
emper. Buffalo Bill was called before the curtain
at the end of the first act, when he made a speech
that was neat and appropriate, as well as short.
The entertainment began with a farce by Ned
Buntline, called “The Broken Bank,” probably the
worst ever written, and certainly the worst acted
atrocity ever seen on any stage.