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HAVERLY'S THEATRE. MONDAY January 7,
BUFFALO BILL
HON W. F. CODY.
AND HIS GRAND COMBINATION, in the refined sensational drama, MAY CODY OR LOST AND WON, Introducing the Indian Sioux Chiefs, TWO BEARS and CHA-SHA-A-APAGEO. Delegates at the late conference at Washington. Also the renowned rifle team, the AUSTIN BROs.. DARBY M'CUNE and the Educated Bones Donkey. C.E BLANCHETT. Business Manager.
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HAVERLY'S THEATRE. (Late Adelphi)
J.H. HAVERLY................. Propiertor and Manager.
EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK. The original BUFFALO BILL (Hon W. F. Cody) and his Grand Combination in the refined sensational drama.
MAY CODY or LOST AND WON.
Introducing --- Sioux Chiefs, TWO BEARS and CHA-SHA-SHA-APAGEO the renowned AUSTIN BROs. Educated Donkey. --- Wednesday and Saturday. 8:30.
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AMUSEMENTS.
THE ADELPHI.
Here comes another drama of Far Western life, - a piece which, with all its grotesquery, retains a certain flavor of the mountains. The playright has sketched out a pathway, and has left the hardy mountaineers to follow it out, and the actors, being for the most part persons not trained in the harness of stage "business", there is a wonderful freedom from all conventionality in the stage effects produced by them. Compared with the "society drama" of the day, or the "domestic," or the "emotional," this free, rough sketch - dashed off, as it would seem, in a kind of frolie by a careless genius, who builded better than he knew - is really an addition to our dramatic literature. It is as true as the stories in the Arabian Nights. It is not as wildly improbable in incident or situation as one-half of the drawing-room dramas which pass current in these days, and it has the inmense advantage of dealing with unfamiliar occurrences. The terrible Mountain Meadows butchery - recently made fresh in all minds by the tardy retribution visited upon the head of John D. Lee - has an attraction for the dime novelist, and the writer of plays. The subject has never been handled by a competent artist, and so it has been left for artizans to deal with. Maj. Burt has produced a rough-and-tumble picture to suit a certain class, and he has handled the subject in a roughshod way that produces better effects than the most patient polishing could have accomplished. He has the advantage of having coadjutors like Buffalo Bill, and real red men, who have passed through the scenes they struggle to mimic, and thus the drama acquires, in their handling of it, a certain air of reality which is wanting in the older specimens of this kind of workmanship. Mr. Cody is the hero of the piece, and to any one familiar with Mr. Cody's personal history it requires no stretch of the imagination to realize the incidents in which he is presented as the central figure. 'Tis like being a boy again, and reading one of Fenimore Cooper's tales. Here is a real Hawkeye, and, to you, here is the veritable Chingachgook. The age of romance is not ended after all. Mr. Vicent Crummies would have pawned his immortal soul for such a set of properties, so far ahead of real pumps and tubs.
The scenes in the drama are admirably painted by Frank Skiff, the scenic artist whose acquaintence with the localities described has lent a vigor and freshness to his brush. And Bill himself is a noble specimen of Western humanity tall, musuclar, and handsome, the very ideal of a border hero. He acts remarkably well for a man whose life has been passed more among the realities than the simulations of savage life, and there is a freshness both in his walk and conversation which, it is to be hoped, he will
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Cody is the hero of the place, and to any one familiar with Mr. Cody's personal history it requires no strech of the imagination to realize the incidents in which he is presented as the central figure. 'This like being a boy again, and reading one of Fenmore Cooper's tales. He is a real Hawkeye, and to you, here is the veritable (bingachgook). The age of romance is not ended after all. Mr. Vincent Crummies would have pawned his immortal soul for such a set of properties, so far ahead of real pumps and tube.
The scenes in the drama are admirably painted by Frank Skilf, the scenic artist, whose acquantaince with the localities described has -- a vigor and freshness to his brush. And Bill himself is a noble specimen of Western humanity, tall, musuclar, and handsome, the very ideal of a border hero. He acts remarkably well for a man whose life has been passed more among the realities than the simulations of savage life, and there is a freshness both in his walk and conversation which, it is to be hoped, he will never get over if he peursues the life of an actor. The boys roar over him with delight and all the girls are "mashed". Among the most interesting episodes in this wild border drama are the exhibitions of sharpshooting by the Austin Brothers, which excel anything of the kind we have seen. It is hard to say which to admire most, the skill of the marksman or the imperturbability of the man who holds the mark. There is no deception about it. It is display of cool daring and skill such as our old friend Cooper would have made us gloat over in his pages if he could have conceived it. Buffalo Bill will be at the Adelphi all this week.
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AMUSEMENTS
Owens' Academy of Music.
LAST NIGHT of BUFFULO BILL! THE RED RIGHT HAND! All the scouts and Indians. MATINEE at 2 - May CODY.