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Worcester Theatre.
"Just Returned from the Black Hills!"
ATTRACTION EXTRAORDINARY!
One Night Only, Thursday Eve., Jan. 21
THE GREAT AND ONLY
BUFFALO BILL!
[Hou. W. F. Cody]
He will appear in the startling and realistic drama, entitled.
SCOUTS OF THE PLAINS
supported by
KIT CARSON JR., the Renowned Texas Ranger, and a new Company of Metropolitan Artiste.
Prices as usual. Reserved Seats may be secured at Worcester Theatre.
JOSH E. OGDEN. Gen. Ag't.
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LIFE ON THE BORDER.-"Buffalo Bill," who has always been so enthusiactically welcomed here, is to be at the theatre tonight, with a dramatic company in which there are many new faces. The old play "The Scouts of the Plains" is to give place to a new drama, "Life on the Border," which is presented here for the third time on any stage. It is said to be more artistically plotted than "The Scouts," and met with decided favor at Lawrence and Lowell. Kit Carson Jr., son of the famous trapper and plainsman, and a true "chip of the old block," is a member of the company, and is to appera in a leading character tonight. All will remember the wild reception given "Buffalo Bill" when he was last here, and a full house this evening is a certainty.
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AT THE THEATRE. -A packed house and a roueing welcome greeted "Buffalo Bill" and his company last evening. "Life on the Border," the new five act drama, written expressly for Mr. Cody, by Mr. Hiram Robbins, proved a decided "hit" here, as well as at Lawrence and Lowell, and is far superior in plot, incidents and tone to the familiar but ever popular "Scouts of the Plains," also written by the same author. The unflagging interest which held the close attention of the audience from beginning to the close, and the frequent spontaneous outbursts of applause from all parts of the house showed plainly that the new piece touches the "popular chord," and is destined to win fresh laurels and fortune for its hero and proprietor. "Life of the Border" as here given has a flavor of reality. The lines are free from the [?] twaddle of the dime novel series, and the incidents are toned down within the range of human probability, while preserving all the dash, danger and devil-may-care elements of the traditional life in the backwoods. Another noticeable contrast is the absence of the usual "rivers of gore" on the stage, and suffocation from burnt powder in the auditorium, the exigencies of the drama requiring only a limited amount of shooting and scalping in the presence of the audience. A desperate hand-to-hand fight with a huge "grizzly," wonderfully life-like in detail and action, gives a novel zest to the third act, and is in itself a strong card. Mr. Cody is also to be congratulated upon having secured the best support he has ever had, all the minor parts being fairly taken, and the leading roles excellently presented by the celebrated Kit Carson, Jr., and Messrs. Robbings, Arlington, Waite, Ward, and Busil.
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--Buffalo Bill, Kit Carson, Jr., and the troupe which played in the new drama, "Life on the Border," had a rousing house at the theater last evening; rousing in point of numbers and rousing in the relish with which the comic and blood and thunder scenes in which the drama abounds, were taken in. On the whole the drama was much better than others in which Buffalo Bill has visited this city, and afforded just as good an exhibition of the gallant scouts and their rough, but albeit courageous and fascinating life on the plains.
