1880 Buffalo Bill Combination News

Col. Prentiss Ingraham's new play for Buffalo Bill was presented at the Windsor Threatre Monday. It is entitled Buffalo Bill at Bay. The play is without doubt destined to succeed on the road. The central figure, Buffalo Bill, is as picturesque a fighter as any hero that Fenimore Cooper ever drew. In every climax he drew the plaudits of the audience, until at the end of the third act, he received a deafening recall–such a demand as only a Bowery audience can make, spontaneous and hearty. A Bowery audience is always in earnest. The vast throng followed the thread of the story, and caught every point, and as the hero turned the tables upon his enemies the applause and the sympathy found vent in outbursts that came like the roar of artillery. The climaxes in the first three acts were finely brought on. But the denouement in the fourth and last act needs strengthening–it is a little too tame. However, Buffalo Bill has scored a success, and will add an exciting drama to his repertoire. Col. Ingraham will no doubt improve the play as he discovers the defects. The plot is simple–hardly worth repeating. The heroine is a sister of Buffalo Bill (Lydia Denier), who is beloved by Guy Woodbridge (Lou Willard). The villain is a United States officer who turns out to be a renegade. Of course the villain plots against the happiness of the heroine, and the plot hinges upon a kidnapping and a rescue. The disguises of Buffalo Bill in unraveling the plot are very fine in the make-up. Charles Wilson played an Irishman very well. Harry Irving had a very poor conception of an African servant. Lydia Denier was graceful as Prairie Pearl, and Nellie Jones, Corinne Kendall made the most of the role of a disappointed and plotting woman. The play was handsomely mounted, and will no doubt test the capacity of the house during the week.

WINDSOR THEATRE, Bowery, below Canal Street. THE PEOPLE'S THEATRE- AT POPULAR PRICES John A. STEVENS, ----Lesse e. FRANK B MURTHA, -----Manager. THE LARGEST THEATRE IN NEW YORK----HOLDS 4,000 PEOPLE. Retitled and redecorated in modern style and opened with BUFFALO BILL AND HIS FAMOUS COMBINATION. KNIGHT OF THE PLAINS. Produced with the most elaborate scenery and REAL INDIANS, REAL HORSES AND REAL ACTORS.

To a house packed from top to bottom, realizing the snag figure of $980 ON THE OPENING NIGHT.

March 22d, the greatest of all the UNCLE TOM ATTRACTIONS,

The famous and inapproachable MR. GEORGE C. HOWARD'S TOPSY

Supported by her monster. UNCLE TOM COMBINATION, Including 60-Jubilee Singers and a Plantation Scene of 100 Negroes.

Stars and Combinations and magnitude and positive strength, wanting time, apply to C. R. GARDINER. 12 UNION SQUARE.

B. B. M. BUFFALO BILL MAJORITY,

Have you read the returns? The Buffalo Bill Combination has been elected by the public as the strongest drawing attraction on the road this season, notwithstanding the political meetings and torchlight-processions encountered, which have been lost to view and forgotten by the crowds who have flocked to see us.

NINTH ANNUAL TOUR OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY SCOUT AND INDIAN TRAILER, BUFFALO BILL (Hon. W. F. Cody),

Supported by his own magnificent STAR DRAMATIC COMBINATION. including

A TROPE OF CHEYENNE INDIANS, A FULL BAND AND ORCHESTRA, and the famous TRICK DONKEY JERRY. In his most powerful border drama, written by JOHN A. STEVENS, author of UNKNOWN, for W. F. CODY (Buffalo Bill), entitled THE PRAIRIE WALF; A STORY OF THE WEST. A success unparalleled in the history of amusements. The strongest drama, the greatest

Star, the finest company and the best drawing card in America. This is the verdict of Press, Public and The Mangers everywhere. Figures don't lie. Read them. MILWAUKEE two nights, ST. PAUL, one night and MINNEAPOLIS two

nights--Receipts, $3.500 CHICAGO Speaks at the rate of $ 3, 300 at the OLYMPIC THEATRE, one week. ST. LOUIS still advancing, and goes two better-POPES THEATRE. one week, $5,300. CINCINNATI swells the majority. HEUCKS OPERA HOUSE, Immediately after the Exposition (?) and in the heat of the election excitement. on SUN-DAY. Oct. 17 at two performances, the largest day's business ever done in the building. Receipts for the day $1, 390. Other counties and several large cities to be heard from. W. F. CODY, Proprietor and Manager Address all letters in regard to sharing terms, dates, to JOSH E. OGDEN, Business Manager.

P. S. Read what Mr. Collins, manager of Henck's Opera House. says in his letter to Mr. Cody, dated Oct. 18, 1880. It speaks for itself:

HON. W. F. CODY (Buffalo Bill)---DEAR SIR: Permit me on the eve of your departure to congratulate you on your successful week's business at the theatre: but it is no more than your deserve, as the play and company are first class in every particular. I don't believe there is another star in America that could have done as well. considering it was the worst week in the year, the Exposition having just closed, and a tremendous election excitement following. Notwithstanding all this you have played to overwhelming large houses, and yesterday you played to the largest number of people ever inside of this building in one day, the receipts of the two performances being $ 1, 375. Wishing you the continued success you so richly deserve, I hope to have the pleasure of playing you again at this theatre at whatever date you many appoint. In conclusion, outside of our business relations, permit me to say that I have ever found you an honorable gentleman as well as an artist, and what I consider the best drawing card on the American stage. Again wishing you every success in life, I remain. yours respectfully, JAMES COLLINS, Manager Henck's Opera House.

BUFFALO BILL BOOMING!

A SPLENDID WEEK AT THE

WALNUT STREET THEATRE, PHILADELPHIA.

DRAWING THE ELITE OF THE CITY.

THE KNIGHT OF THE PLAINS!

A GREAT HIT IN BALTIMORE! AT FORD'S OPERA HOUSE. FROM FEBRUARY 23 TO 29,

BUFFALO BILL AND HIS STAR COMBINATION

WILL BE AT THE

NOVELTY THEATRE, WILLIAMSBURG, N. Y. FROM MARCH 1 TO 7 AT THE

Windsor Theatre, in the Bowery, New York City.

Buffalo Bill will make the tour of the country next season as usual. Hon. W. F. Cody looks sharp after his own interests, and arranges early in the Spring many of his important engagements. Nearly every Summer he acts as companion and escort to some distinguished party of hunters or sportsmen on their trips over the Plains, and it is quite likely the coming Summer will be no exception. But himself and Josh Ogden will do a good deal of work before he goes, and after his departure the latter gentleman and Mr. Gardiner will attend to the balance. Buffalo Bill is a successful star and has been well managed. Mr. Ogden's address is always care of C. R. Gardiner.