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BUSH-STREET THEATER.-Hon. W.F.
Cody (Buffalo Bill) and Captain Jack, supported
by the company of the Bush-street
Theater, gave for the first time last evening
the sanguinary drama The Red Right
Hand. The audience was a top-heavy one,
a noisy gallery slightly overbalancing a less
demonstrative dress-circle. We have already
paid Mr. Cody's pieces that compliment
of saying that of their kind
they are good; they reprsent border
llife with an approximation to truth,
they are full of incident, and the parts taken
by himself and Captain Jack are true,
manly and natural, and portray faithfully
the homely, heroic fiber of two genuine
frontiersmen. As such, they are well worth
seeing, not alone by the gallery, which
admires them merely for the blood and
thunder element that runs a sensational
vein through them, but by all for their pictures,
sometimes overcolored, of a life that
is novel to most, and before long can be seen
by no one except through the medium of the
drama and historic fiction. The Red Right
Hand will probably be more popular than
Life on the Frontier. Its plot moves
quicker, its incidents are more naturally
arranged and it elimaxes more startling
and sensational. Mr. Cody and Mr. Crawford
both appear in their true characters,
and reproduce scenes in which they have
participated. Mr. Bradly, Mr. Billings,
and Mr. Simms do some good acting, the
last playing a Chinaman to whom the wild
life of the border is a startling reality. The
scalping of the Yellow Hand by Buffalo Bill
upon the stage is taking bit of acting for
the gallery. The support is generally efficient
and the scenery carefully painted.