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LAST EVENING'S AMUSEMENTS.
Buffalo Bill at the Grand---The Adelphi---The Academy of Music.
BUFFALO BILL.
The Hon. W.F Cody, better known as Buffalo Bill, presented his new drama, "Buffalo Bill's Pledge" at the Grand last evening to an immense audience, the parquette, dress circle and balcony all being comfortably crowded with an audience of ladies and gentlemen about equally divided as to sex. The new play is supposed to be drawn from personal incidents, adventures and encounters in the life of Cody himself, and the thrilling scenes are interspersed with the amusing dialogue of a German and a negro, which keeps the audience in a continnual good humor.
Frank Thompson's cornet solo was a very artistic one, and he promises to be one of the Wileys of the future. He received two hearty encores.
The Indians and the trick donkey also came in for a fair share of the applause, and, taken as a whole, the audience appeared to enjoy itself.
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Harper's _ Theatre!
Thursday Evening, Sept. 21.
Eleventh annual season of the Great Scout and Guide.
BUFFALO BILL!
(HON. W.F. CODY)
And his own Mammoth Combination, consisting of
25 FIRST CLASS ARTISTS 25
Who will appear in the new and startling sensation drama, written from Wm. F. Cody, (Buffalo Bill), by Charles Foster, author of Saved at Seven, entitled
20 DAYS!
Or BUFFALO BILL'S PLEDGE.
The following Indian Chiefs from the Winnebago Sioux and Pawnee tribes, will appear at each performance and in the street parade:
Chief [?]. [Ma-He-Ut-Un-Kaw?]. Rolling Thuni. Blue Hawk. He-Nu-Kaw. Fire Lightning.
Mr. Cody (Buffalo Bill) will give an exhibition of fancy rifle shooting in which he is pre-eminent and alone
Note - The audience will please take particular notice of the twenty different positions that Mr. Cody holds his rifle in making his fancy shots.
THE TRICK DONKEY_ "JERRY."
A Donkey that Barnum cannot equal in [doclity?], [sagecity?], style and fun.
A cornet solo by Mr Frank Thompson, between First and second acts.
First and second acts.
Seats for sale at Harper House drug store
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Buffalo Bill.
Buffalo Bill had the grand jam of the the season at Harper's Theatre last night. In addition to a heavy sale of reserved seats beforehand, 800 tickets were sold at the box office. Not only was every seat in the house occupied but the aisles, were crowded with standers. The play, "Twenty Days, or Buffalo Bill's Pledge" is a highly sensational one, written by the Hon. William himself, whose success is largely due to the fact that he is his own dramatist and furnishes his incidents from his own lively experience and imagination. In the first act Buffalo Bill spoils a necktie sociable that Judge Lynch had decreed. In the second act he digs out a man who had been "buried alive" in a shaft. In the third act he captures a murderer. And in the fourth act he clears up a terrible mystery-gives the whole thing away- and thus redeems his "pledge" in the allotted time, "Twenty Days." Incidental to the piece are exhibitions of Buffalo Bill's dexterity and accuracy in rifle shooting, tricks by Buffalo Bill's trained donkey, a war-dance and singing by six Indians, a cornet solo by Frank Thompson, and a vocal and instrumental olio by Jule Keene and Sallie Adams The play was well-cast and the company a good one.
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[WORD?]
An immense audience, as usual, greeted Buffalo Bill and his company at the opera house Friday evening - another welcome to his native heath. It was a profitable audience, for the ticket sales amounted to $735. Buffalo Bill progresses with [word?] his dramas, and as an actor; his drama of "Twenty Days, or Buffalo Bill's Pledge is greatly superior in sensible plot and realistic scenes to any of the previous sensational representation of [word?] shooting, Indian killing performances he had offered here every season nearly for a decade. There is humor in it, mingled with real good, sober sentiment, and the audience laughed and were [word?] by pathetic incidents by turns - and enjoyed the play greatly. There is some fine shooting, laughable mule tricks, and numerous pioneer pranks mingled with the sober scenes. His latest drama is Cody's greatest success.
