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Cody (Bufaflo Bill) and Captain Jack Crawford, "The Poet Scout." It was Crawford's duty to prepare the blank cartriges with which the crack-shot Cody blasted the targets offered him. The night the pair showed here, Crawford gave the cartridge job to a property man, thelling him to stop the end of each shell with parafine. The house employe believed a tallow candle would do as well, so he prodded candle grease into the cartridges and places six of 'em in each gun which Cody was to use. The first shot melted the wax and the sparks set off all the other cartridges. Frank Helvey, then a youngster, heard and saw the explosions, rushed down a stairway into the street, the story goes, and declared that Bufallo Bill was "massacreing the whole audience."
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DE BAR'S OPERA HOUSE.
Miss Lotta played Zip to a delighted audience last night, the last performance of a two weeks' engagement, as a successful as any the popular actress ever filled. Tomorrow night the Buffalo Bill combination appear in the border drama of The Red Right Hand, or the First Scalp for Custer, a play with a ocnsiderable amount of blood and thunder int it, and full of sensation and humor. It is founded upon the tragic incidents of the Custer massacre, and the engagement with "Yellow Hand's" band of Cheyennes, in which Buffalo Bill carried off the scalp of that savage chieftain. All these dreadful scenes are presented with terrible reality in The Red Right Hand, and with great fidelity to the historic facts involved. Besides Buffalo Bill, Captain Jack (J. W. Crawford), another noted frontiersman, will appear in an important role. The combination has recived strong praise wherever it has been.
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DE BAR'S OPERA HOUSE
MONDAY, APRIL 2. every evening and SATURDAY MATINEE.
The Buffalo Bill Combination
In the Thrilling Border Drama,
THE RED RIGHT HAND, Or, Buffalo Bill's First Scalp for Custer.
Change of Bill Thursday.
Monday, April 2 - Benefit of GEO. J. JONES.
Tuesday - MILTON NOBLES.
THEATRE COMIQUE.
Pine Street. Between Third and Fourth.
This (Monday) Evening. Ladies' Night, Ladies' admission. 10c.
Miss Tillie Graham, Miss Lily Ciproniere, in addition to Miss Mollie Wilson. Carlyle and Son, Three Crawfords C. E. Charles, Millie. Letourneur: the new ballet, "STARS OF THE SOUTH:" also, the laughable sketch of "Our New Postmaster," the "Masked-ball."
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DE BAR'S OPERA HOUSE. The Red Right Hand was produced last night with excellent effect and to the perfect satisfaction of the large audience present. Buffalo Bill has so many admirers in St. Louis. and so many with a special fondness for his class of sensational entertainments. That he always has a guarantee of good houses. The play is entirely new and full of startling events. Miss Marie Wellesley is an actress of considerable ability, and as Pearl, an Indian princess, plays an important part, while Captain Jack Crawford, poet-scout of the Black Hills, gives Buffalo Bill efficient support.
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DE BAR'S OPERA HOUSE.
The play of the Red Right Hand was produced last night before a large and enthusiastic audience, and the performance was the best ever given by Buffalo Bill in St. Louis. Capt. Jack Crawford gives efficient support, and Miss Marie Wellesley has proven to be a great favorite.