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BUFFALO BILL AND "PRAIRIE WAIF."
Tomorrow night Buffalo Bill will present his drama at Coates' Opera house. The Cleveland Herald says: "The enthusiasm opened with the rise of the curtain, increased with each act, and was at white heat at the close. The audience came to admire and enjoy, and did both to their hearts' content. Of course there are a great many theatre-goers to whom the border drama has no attraction, but those who take pleasure in that line can find nothing better than Mr. W. F. Cody and his "Prairie Waif."
The play is a new one for this season, and some very pretty scenes. There is less blood-letting, fewer scalps taken, and not so many Indian forays as have occured in pieces of the sort presented before. The second act contains a love making scene which "Bill" plays with a naturalness that suggests great experience in younger days. His fancy shooting is admirable. He has a very good support, especially in Miss Fletcher as Oneta, Mr. Keen as Hans, and Mr. Charles as Captain Russell. The rest of the support is good, and the Indians add a most attractive picture. Cody himself is the same cool, natural and handsome fellow that Cleveland has become so well acquainted with and his play is clean and pretty. It will be presented to-night and to-morrow night, and at the Saturday matinee."
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BUFFALO BILL.
"Buffalo Bill" played to a full house last night. "The Prairie Waif" is designed, as have been all the plays of this noted scout and actor, to illustrate life on the plains and in the backwoods, but the illustration now given is not quite so extravagant as those heretofore presented. It is more consitent, and the situations admit of a possibility in the minds of people accustomed to quiet lives, that they paint actual occurrences. To those who have never known life in the West, never seen cow-boys and their ilk, it is impossible for them to realize that such noise, hubbub and confusion can occur as is represented by the drama that Mr. Cody has brought before the public. "Bill" is a good shot, and being the center of attraction draws a great deal of attention. The Indians executed a good war dance and the orchestra made good music.
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"BUFFALO BILL."
The "Prairie Waif" and Buffalo Bill on Thursday and Friday evenings. The Utica Daily Herald says"
W.F. Cody and his compeny presented "The Prairie Waif," at the Opera House last evening to a large audience. The play is an improvement on any of the plays in which "Buffalo Bill" has heretofore appeared, and gave very good satisfaction. The company is an excellent one. Early in the play Buffalo Bill does some remarkable shooting, which called forth pretracted applause. One of the features was the trained donkey "Jerry."
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POPE'S. BUFFALO BILL.
The handsomest theatre in St. Louis SUNDAY; October 16, Every Evening, Wednesday and Saturday Matinee.
BUFFALO BILL (Hon. Wm. F. Cody.)
And his mammoth company and a noted band of Sioux Indian chiefs, in John H. Stevens' great drama
PRAIRIE WAIF.
MONDAY, October 24- A.M. Palmer's original New York Union Square Company.
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Buffalo Bill introduces real Indians in his plays, and they are expected to let him heroically vanquish them; but in the Chicago performance one of them was drunk, and refused to fall when the scout struck him a sham blow. Instead, he tried to use his tomahawk, and had to be dragged off the stage.