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MARTIN'S OPERA HOUSE Thursday, Friday and Saturday Feb. 26th , 27th and 28th Astounding Attractions the original Living Heroes Links between Civilization and Savagery BUFFALO BILL Hon. W. F . Cody TEXAS JACK J . B . Omohundro WILD BILL J . B . Hickok The Peerless Danseuse and Pantomine Actress MLLE. MORLACCHI ! And a powerful DRAMATIC COMPANY The performance will commence with the Peerless Morlacchi in COMEDIETTA Three Beautiful Dances and will sing CAVATInA from the Opera of ERNANI To be followed by the Now sesnsatinal Play SCOUTS OF THE PLAINS Sale of reserved seats commences Saturday morning Feb. at Music Store
MARTIN'S OPERA HOUSE Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26th, 27th and 28th. Astounding Attractions The originals Living Heroes Links between Civilization and Savages
BUFFALO BILL, Hon. W. F. Cody TEXAS JACK, J. B. Omohundro WILD BILL, J. B. Hickock The Peerless Panseuse and Pantomime Actress MLLE. MORLACCHI! And a powerful DRAMATIC COMPANY The performance will commence with the Peerless Morlacchi in a COMEDIETTA. Three Beautiful Dances. and will sing CAVATINA , from the OPERA OF ERNANI To be followed by the New Sensational Play SCOUTS OF THE PLAINS.
Sale of reserved seats commences Saturday morning, Feb. 21, at Wooley's Music Store Prices as usual Grand Family Matinee Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock HARRY MINER, Business Manager te24 26 27 ss
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The performance at Martin opera house last evening, which served to present to the public those heroes of border life, Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack and Wild Bill, was of a much higher grade than the trash which Ned Buntline inflicted upon the public last year. The entertainment opened with a farce in which Morlacchi already famous as a danseuse appeared in a speaking part and also sang with excellent effect. The "scouts" have improved in their knowledge of stage business and have developed into very passable actors. But their strong points are their splendid physical development and the way in which they handle those magnificent repeating rifles. They are well supported by a company of more than average merit, and altogether the performance is a great improvement upon what they gave us last year. They appear to-night at a grand matinee to-morrow.
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The Scouts.
"The scouts" were greeted with a very large house last evening, and their performance met with great favor. It is really of a better character than the general impression gives it credit for. The farce with which the entertainment opens is an unusually good one, serving especially to show the somewhat remarkable talents of M'lle Morlacchi. This lady if we remember correctly, floated to this country in the great inundation of ballet dancers which followed the astounding success of the "Black Crook," and its successor the "White Fawn" She appeared in New York, but her great success was in prim, proper, puritanical, Boston. She took the modern Athenians by storm, and the writer remembers seeing on one occasion the packed audience of the Theatre Comique, standing on their feet and throwing their hats in the air in a passion of enthusiasm over the wonderful pas and poses of the beautiful danseuse. Then she retired from the stage bought a farm in Bilerica, a town near Boston, and turned practical granger, and the story is told of a New York manager coming to secure her for an engagement and finding the queen of the footlights in the field digging. potatoes. Then we heard of her with Ned Buntline's party, and later of her marriage to "Texas Jack." And now we find her developed into a sparkling commedienne, singing, acting and talking English with a pleasing accent, which captivates alike the parquette and the gallery.
But the farce in the estimation of the boys is only a "talking piece" as we heard one of them say last night. It is the "Scouts of the Plains" that is the great attraction. Abounding in incongruities, gun powder and Indians, there is still a great deal of fun and interest in the play, and it is not more improbable than half the stuff that -holds the stage at the present time. "The Scouts" show signs of improvement as actors and Mr. Cody especially has improved both in elocution and gesture. The company which supports them is an unusually good one including Mr. Frank Mordaunt, an actor of much merit. The last performance will take place this evening.
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JOHNSON HALL,
ONE NIGHT ONLY,
TUESDAY, Feb. 3d.
Astounding attractions ! The Originals !
Living Heroes! Links between Civilization and Savagery!
BUFFALO BILL, (Hon, W. F. Cody.)
TEXAS JACK, (J. B. Omehundro.)
WILD BILL, (J. B. Hickok.)
The Peerless Danseus and Pantomine Actress,
MLLE. MORLACCHI,
And a powerful DRAMATIC COMPANY, including the popular Actor
FRANK MoRDAUNT.
The performance will commence with the Peerless Morlacchi in a COMEDIETTA.
THREE BEAUTIFUL DANCES, and will sing CAVATINA, from the OPERA OF FRNANI
Sale of reserved seats commence Wednesday morning Jan. 28th, at Palmer's & Co., Book Store. Prices as usual.
HARRY MINER, Business Manager.
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The original and only Buffalo Bill (Hon. W. F. Cody) and his troupe of Indians and Dramatic company, are to perform at Johnson Hall, on Tueday evening next. The troupe is now doing an immense business and have excellent notices from the press in places where they have exhibited.