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BUFFALO BILL
Long before the rising of the curtain score of persons had to be turned away from the doors of the Academy on Saturday night. Mr. Cody's name, together with extensive and Judicious advertising, succeed in testing the capacity of the building, and no doubt the combination deserved it.
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Buffalo Bill.
(Washington Daily Post.)
Buffalo Bill pursues the even tenor of his way, making at once many friends and much money, with his interesting drama and band of genuine Indians from the wild west. He is supported by an excellent company, by which all the food points in the play are well brought out. Buffalo Bill, thereafter, need not merely depend upon his fame as a scout and guide to draw an audience, as he has exhibited a rare talent in portraying frontier life, and will compare favorably with the average of actors.
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Academy of Music
Return of THE Favorite
Saturday Eve., Oct. 18.
HON. W. F. CODY,
Buffalo Bill
And his monster combination of
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KNIGHT OF THE PLAINS,
Or Buffalo Bills Best Trail.
Master Burgess, the Boy Chief of the Pawnees, and C. A. Burgress, the Government Scout and Guide Indian Cheifs from the Poncas and Pawnee Reservation.
Fancy Rifle Shooting by Buffalo Bill.
A grand street parade will be given on horse back by the Indians, headed by Buffalo Bill's own Military Band and Orchestra, led by Prof. RAMPONE.
Persons wishing to purchase the "Life of Buffalo Bill," can do so by applying at the Hall during the performance.
Reserved seats 75 cents. General admission 50 cents. Children under 12 years to gallery and rear seats 25 cents. Sale of seats will commence Thursday morning at nine o'clock.
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BUFFALO BILL.
On Saturday night, Hon. Wm. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) the memory of whose exploits on the western frontier have so frequently thrilled the hearts of every American citizen, will appear at the Academy with a splendid company, and present a characteristic drama, in which he appears in the roles of an English fop, a detective, and a scout of the plains. The sale of seats began at Fowler's this morning and indicate a full house. A California paper speapks thus of Buffalo Bill:
Everybody knows Buffalo Bill, and every body in America worships the long-haired scout whose name is known on the plains from the Missouri to the Rio Grande. His escapes and bravery have given him a romantic attraction like that which Othello gained in the eyes of Desdemona when he recounted his tales of danger by flood and field. Tis not to be wondered at, then that the placard, "Standing room only," is displayed nightly in the vestibule of the California.
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What a Woman Says About Buffalo Bill.
On the occasion of Mr. Cody's visit to San Franciso last April, she devoted a column to the famous scout who appears here to-morrow night. Among other things she said: "What would not Frank Mayo give for this genuine frontier accent, which hangs upon the lips of Buffalo Bill, and will not away. You can follow his observation of men and manners with every trick of the stage drawing room which he assumes. You can see just how he was first stage struck by the roll of his r's. You can tell the sort of men he likes by his cultivation of imperturbable sang-froid. It is odd to watch how transparently the consciousness of the man shows all through it. When he shakes his head like a young bison, you feel that he is conscious, of his Absolom locks; when he sits on his horse and strains his eye to look over the prairie, you can realize that every detail of the costume, every pose of the figure, has been studied. In an actor this is well and right. In Buffalo Bill perhaps this is well and right, too, but you have an odd feeling that, being as he is a genuine child of the prairies, this homelight, this playing up to a curtain; this pandering to a shouting, screaming, whistling gallery, make him an apostate of nature. But the gallery likes it, the people like it, and I know Buffalo Bill likes it. He is a big, handsome, strong, young fellow, and he has many accomplishments. He can snap a whip in such a way that everyone jumps and think an Alcatraz cannon has gone off. He handles a bowie-knife like a Corsican. A heavy revolver is simply a gleaming toy in his hands, and he swings a rifle around as if it were a ribbon. How the boys' eyes gleam and shine from the gallery: how their young hearts swell and long for Injuns and highwayman, and the punishment of villains; how in fact, they all yearn to be Buffalo Bills.
We had looked on many a play on the boards of the California theatre, but we all came to the conclusions that we had never met with such a wealth of incident in any one of those plays as in "May Cody" nor any actor who so thoroughly played [word?] as Buffalo Bill.