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AMUSEMENTS. WALL'S NEW OPERA HOUSE JOHN T. FORD................Proprietor. MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. The great realistic sensation the Heroes of the Prairie, BUFFALO BILL, (Cody,) TEXAS JACK, (O'Mohundro,) and a genuine band of Pawnee Indians, with NED BUNTLINE, the Scouts and Auther, in his great Romance of Real Life, THE SCOUTS OF PRAIRIE, Introducing the dance of death, throwing the lasso, the distances, on the trail, the rescue, and last shot to commence with the musical comedy, JEENY LIND Jenny Leatherlungs (with songs and dances.) Miss Bessie Sudlow. Admission .50 and 75 cents; reserved seats, 75 cents to $1 admission to Wednesday and Saturday faintness, 25 and 50 cents. Seats can now be secured at the Opera House.
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WALL'S NEW OPERA HOUSE.
using house greeted Ned Buntline and Scouts last night, at Wall's, in their sixth nation of the wonderful scones as pord in border life and recorded by Buntline famous stories. Every Hight the audi increase, and were they to remain week the Opera House would be far for the vast audiences that would de-witness these splendid and fascinating comments To-day at 2 o'clock they give family matinee, with the prices reduced to 21 and 50 cents and this evening give the last performance.
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AMUSEMENTS. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. MEECH BROTIIERS....................MANAGERS Thursday, Friday and Saturday Nights, June 12th, 13th, and 14th, AND SATURDAY MATINEE The Most Thrilling Dramatic Sensation of the Age! NED BUNTLINE! BUFFALO BILL! TEXAS JACK! THE HEROES OF TIIE FRONTIER! Who have crowded the leading (theatres in the country with fashionable and astonished audience, with the wonderful emotion of the, SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE For which purpose they have expressly engaged PAWNEE INDIANS Commending with the Musical Comedy, "JENNY LIND!" "Jenny Leatherlungs," (with songs and dances,) MISS BESSIE SUDLOW Full particulars in Programmes. Secured seats at Cottier & Denison's Music store.
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HODGE OPERA HOUSE Positively One Night Only! Monday Evening, June 16, 1873 THE TOWN WILL BE TAKEN BY LIVE INDIANS! BUFFALO BILL IN COMMAND! TEXAS JACK on the Scout! NED BUNTLINE in Arms and Eager for the Fray! The Great Romance of Real Life, SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE For which purpose they have engaged PAWNEE INDIANS To commending with the Musical Comedy, "JENNY LIND!" "Jenny Leatherlungs," (with songs and dances,) MISS BESSIE SUDLOW ADMISSION.........75,50 and 35 Cents Reserved Seats can be secured six days, without extra charge CHARLIES MELVILLE General Agent.
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The Scouts'of the Prairie
A fair-sized audience greeted "the Scouts" at the Opera House last craning. The open-ng farce, Jenny Lind, passed off to the satisfaction all, but of course, the greater interest centered around the play of the evening, Ned Buntline's realistic, sensational drama-The Scouts of the Prairie. From the rising of the curtain on the first act to its going down on the last, the various scenes were watched with intense interest. There is much good acting in the play where the parts require it. But if all the characters were taken by professional artists it would in destroy the naturalness and mar the effect of the play. Border life is not supposed to be very refining or attractive to cultivated tastes, and the more natural it can be persecuted, the better idea is obtained its real character. There can possibly be none so capable of representing to the life all the varied scenes of border life, as these whose lives have been spent as bravo and active participants in its perils and dangers.
The audience were not disappointed in the appearance of Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, the original heroes, They are splendid specimens of manhood, and act their parts to the life Ned Buntline showed in his portrayal of the character of Cale Durg that the versatile sailor, soldier, author, and post is not without histrionic talents of more than ordinary merit.
The Senorita Carfano is one of the most graceful women we ever saw upon the stage and we have no hesitation; in saying that in the peculiar character, which she sought to portray last evening-Hazel Eye, the girl trapper, beloved of Texas Jack, she could not be excelled. Her impersonation was the vision which may be created in the mind of the enthusiast from persuing the pages of border fiction that could be hoped for. We think her talents in this direction have not been fully recognized.
The "red skins" of course were natural many a bald-headed man gave an involuntary start as lie he stroked the smooth surface of his cranium, after one of those thrilling contests on the stage.