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NED BUNTLINE'S DRAMA. --This "big injun" performance is bound to be a financial success and have a run on the American stage. It will attract and please just the same class of people who enjoy Buntline's dime novels, and it is precisely like them in all respects. It is no use talking, there are plenty of people who peruse and like them, and we dare say he has fifty readers where Walter Scott has one. They are the kind of book-worms who finish a volume of two hundred pages in a couple of hours, turning the leaves as fast as they can get the gist of them, regardless of anything but the "story." As soon as the plot is revealed, the pith extracted, the orange sucked, they throw the rest away. They read for amusement, for excitement and it was just that class who can appreciate the drama which was enacted at the Opera House last evening. The plot is filled with the most romantic, but most natural love, with thrilling escapes from foolishly perilous situations, with plenty of fine sentiments in the mouths of the "Lo's" and with all glittering paraphernalia which is necessary to please the popular mind. It is dramatic ginger pop for those people who think the merit of champagne the snapp and the fizz when the cork is drawn. But it has the merit of novelty and commended itself last evening to the frequent plaudits of a well entertained audience. One could not help but enjoy the wild and gypsy-like air that pervaded the whole performance, and we came away well pleased with our evening with "Buffalo Bill."
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WIETING OPERA HOUSE.
Messrs, Judson, Cody, Ormorhundro, and Nixon, Managers.
TWO NIGHTS ONLY.
Wednesday and Thursday, January 29 and 30.
Greatest Dramatic Sensation of this age, the advent of the Genuine Western Heroes,
"BUFFALO BILL!"
AND
"TEXAS JACK!"
SUPPORTED BY THE PEERLESS MORLACCHI.
Ten SIOUX and PAWNEE WARRIORS. A specially selected Dramatic Company of the Thirty Persons, and the favorite author and soldier,
NED BUNTLINE,
In his great dramatization of
"The Scouts of the Prarie!"
With realistic War Dances, Pow-wows, Scalp Dances, Thrilling Situations, and the Great Scene of
"A PRAIRIE ON FIRE!"
Admission 50 and 75 cents, Reserved Seats $1
Reserved seats at Lather Brothers' Music Stores.
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AMUSEMENTS.
ROCHESTER OPERA HOUSE
[?] AND MANAGER....................MR. FRANK MAYO TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!
BENEFIT! BENEFIT: OF MR. JOSEPH MuRPHY:
"HELP!" "HELP!" "HELP!"
"If you find him out you, you'll find him in''
GRAND "HELP" MATINEE SATURDAY.
IN PREPARATION. [?] "[?] [?] [?].
CORINTHIAN HALL, ROCHESTER, N. Y.
TWO NIGHTS AND ONE MATINEE ONLY:
FRIDAY, JAN. 31st, AND SATURDAY, FEB 1st.
Greatest Dramatic Sensation of this age, the advent of the GENUINE WESTERN HEROES. BUFFALO BILL AND TEXAS JACK:: SUPPORTED BY THE PEERLESS MORLACCHI:
TEN SIOUX AND PAWNEE WARRIORS:
A Specially Selected Dramatic Company of Thirty Persons, and the Favorite Author and Soldier. NED. BUNTLINE: In his Great Dramatization of the "SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRY" With realistic, "War Dances." "Pow-Wows," "Scalp Dances," Thrilling Sensations; and the GREAT SCENE OF THE PRAIRIE ON FIRE Prices.....................................50 and 75 Cents Reserved Seats can be secured at Dewey's Bookstore, Arcade Hall, on Wednesday, January [20th?]
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The scouts appeared at Corinthian Hall last night before a tremendous house. The piece represented is a dramatisation of one of Ned Buntline's Indian stories, and being novel was well received. The play, however, was a second consideration. the crowd came to see Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack. The first, W. F. Cody, is a fine specimen of manhood and the latter is also a good looking sample of the western scouts. Both were dressed in true prairie fashion and acquitted themselves well. M'lle Mortacchi as the "dusty maid of the forest," Dore Eye was placed in a novel position for a danseuse, but nevertheless assumed the character very credibly. Judging by the applause, the audience were evidently perfectly satisfied with the whole performance. A matinee will be given this afternoon, and the final performance this evening.
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FROM THE PRAIRIE.
Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack and Ned Buntline at the Academy of Music.
Had one of our "oldest inhabitants" happened near the Academy of Music last night when the multitude of excited boys and men were pouring out of its doors, he doubtless would have imagined himself back among those days when Indians prowled around the outskirts of the then village and amuse themselves occasionally by burning houses, stealing chickens, and scalping women and children. The clear night air rang with war whoops and exultant cries of "Buffalo Bill!" "Texas Jack!" and "Cale Durg to the rescue!" etc., etc. Mild mannered citizens were scared off the sidewalks as the animated stream of theatre goers passed up the street, by such exclaimations as the "lasso him!" "tie him to the stake!" "tomahawk him!" etc.
An overflow of dime novel spirits seemed to pervade the town, and ebulations of far West heroics were as free as the air. For all this the Meech Brothers are to blame. They it was who induced Colonel Judson (Ned Buntline) to come here with his troupe of prairie heroes. They it was who were shrewd enough to know that Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, and Ned Buntline would gather into their theatre such as an audience as edwin Booth, Lester Wallack and Joe Jefferson combined would fall to draw, and they it is who will reap the reward of their sagacity.
To say that " the theatre was packed last night" would be a literal truth. We have never seen it so full. Men seemed to be arranged in close layers from the orchestra railing clear away up to the remotest corners of the gallery, and there was also an air of respectability perceiyable in the crowd unusual in such large and miscellaneous assemblages.
The laughable farce, "A Kiss in the Dark," opened the evening's entertainment, but its fun was thrown away on the audience. Interest was alive only for the three notable heroes and the Indians- real Indians. About nine o'clock the curtain arose on the "Scouts of the Prairie," and almost immediately Col. Judson (Ned Buntline), Hon. Wm. F. Cody (the original Buffalo Bill), and J. B. Omohundro (the original Texas Jack), made their appearance upon the stage. All were most rapturously received, and the wildest enthusiasm prayailed in the galeries during the evening. We did not see much of the play, but saw enough of it to know that it is what the boys call "red hot." There is an Indian death dance in it by real Sioux and Pawnee Indians, some lassoing, lots of shooting, a savage bowie knife combat, a little scalping, besides miscellaneous attractions, The cast is as follows:
Buffalo Bill- By the original hero, Hon. W. F. Cody