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GRAND OPERA HOUSE TO-DAY 8th av., corner of 23d st. POOLE & DONNELLY..............Leasees and Managers THE MOST MAGNIFICENT THEATRE IN AMERICA
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GRAND HOLIDAY MATINEE GRAND HOLIDAY MATINEE GRAND HOLIDAY MATINEE GRAND HOLIDAY MATINEE GRAND HOLIDAY MATINEE THIS (ELECTION) DAY THIS (ELECTION) DAY Doors open at 1 1/4. Commence at 2 o'clock THE DASHING AND ORIGINAL BUFFALO BILL (RON. WM. F. CODY). Chief of Scouts in the service of General Terry. His first apperance in New York since his return from recent active service in the Black Hills campaign. BUFFALO BILL BUFFALO BILL BUFFALO BILL BUFFALO BILL will appear in his great Drama, THE SCOUTS OF THE PLAINS, a work replete with characteristic exciting incidents, pictures of life in the Far West and stiking situations. Prices, $1.25, $1.75c., 50c. and 25c. CHILDREN HALD PRICE TO MATINEE CHILDREN HALD PRICE TO MATINEE
NOTICE. The election returns will be recieved at this theatre by telegraph and announced from the stage THIS EVENING.
EXTRA NOTICE. The great success of the current year, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, with its great realistic effects and MARVELLOUSLY LIFE-LIKE PLANTATION SCENE, will resume ints successful career on MONDAY, November 20, Mrs. G. C. HOWARD again apearing as TOPSY.
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Rouse's Opera House,
ONE NIGHT ONLY,
Thursday, Jan. 20.
The Original Scout Combination,
BUFFALO BILL,
(HON. W. F. CODY,)
TEXAS JACK,
(J.B. Omohundro.)
And the peerless [?]
M'LLE MORLACCHI,
Supported by a well selected Dramatic Company, who will appear in the new and thrilling western Border drama, of
LIFE ON THE BORDER!
M'LLE MORLACCHI will appear in the sparkling Comedy of "THRICE MARRIED," and sing a Cavitina from "ERNANI," and dnace 8 Spanish dances, and assuming 4 different characters.
Prices as usual. Reserved seats, 75 cents; tp be had at Adair & Utley's music store, five days in advance.
JOSH E. OGDEN. Agent.
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January 19, 1876-- The Wild West in the person of Buffalo Bill (William J.) cody and company came to Peoria for a one-night stand at Rouse's Hall in the melodrama "Life on the Border." Texas Jack (J B Omohundro) played opposite the noted scout and buffalo hunter. The audience burned and chilled at perils that beset the brave frontiersman Old Sloat (Texas Jack) and they cheered madly when he was yanked from under the scalping knife just in time by Cap. Huntley (Buffalo Bill). Jedediah Broadbrim, the peace-loving Quaker who packed a mighty wallop in hid fist, funished the comedy and Emma Reynolds, bethrotherd of Buffalo Bill, the romance.
The company moved from Peoria to Pekin
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GRAND OPERA-HOUSE- The Buffalo Bill Combination had an astonishing house last night. There were comparatively few people on the first and second floors, but the gallery- that enormous gallery- was packed from rim to roof. That gallery audience is worthy of study. It was composed of boys and very young men, and every one of them extracted ten times theworth of his money from the entertainment. The heroic style of Buffalo Bill tills the youthful idea of a successful scoutand slayer of wild Indians, while the thrilling scenes and striking tableaux of the play only seem to elicit unbounded and unmistakably honest applause from that crowded perch. They entered most completely into the spirit of the play, and gave running comments, which indicated that they unanimously favored the triumph of the right, and the discomfiture of the villain. "Don't you do it," was the admonition of the little fellow to Emma Reynolds, when the villian, Capt. Huntley, asks her to marry him in order to redeem her father. They would have order. A resltess minority, now and then, undertook to yell at the wrong place, but they were promptly put down by the majroity, who were bound to not be interrrupted.
The play has been entirely reconstructed, and has now but two dead Indians and only one pistol shot in it. The dialogue had been pruned and improved, and the humorous passages have been brought into greater prominence. The Combination has several fair actors, especially the old trapper, J. V. Arlington; the Quaker, Mr. Thos. B. Grahm, and Grasshoper Jim, J. R. Johnson. The entertainemnt began with the sketch called "The Widow's Victim," in which Morlacchi appeared. The same bill will be presented tonight.