9

Buffalo Bill

The first floor of Music Hall was fairly filled last night, but the gallery was crowded, and with a most enthusiastic audience. The performance began with a farce "The Quiet Family," and then the curtain rose on a prairie scene in "The Knight of the Plains." The plot of the play [?] a villain, of course, aided by minor [?], a mercenary father, a distressed maiden (which the villain still pursued [?]) and a champion of right and rescuer of innocence in the person of Buffalo Bill. There was much drawing of revolvers and general [determination?] of scoundrels and [sundry?] [impressive?] tableaux of manliness triumphant. The most effective scenes were the prairie on fire and the stage coach on the [prairie?]. The gambling house scene was very comprehensive, including robbery, all sorts of card playing and cheating, and terminating in a duel. In the last act the villain is disposed of in a bowie knife fight with Buffalo Bill, and dies after murdering the woman who loved him. There is [?] of [?] in the play. The acting was [?] that of Mrs W. G Jones as "Wild Nellie," being by far the most dramatic, after the [old-time?] stage fashion. Buffalo Bill was of course the central figure in the play, and acted in his usual quiet and easy manner. [?] Buckley, as "Snowball," was good, and the donkey was immense. The rifle shooting of Bill drew forth the applause of the audience. We were pleased to see that the objects shot at were no longer placed upon the head and in the hands of a human being, as was the case when Bill was last here. Everybody seemed to be pleased with the performance, and if was the boys in the gallery were not, "well, I should smile