| 4NIXON'S AMPITHEATRE
This long-neglected place of amusement has
suddenly loomed up as the most largely patronized
of any of the city, and the audience making
up in quantity what they lack in quality.
The drama entitled "Scouts of the Prairie,"
written in Chicago by Ned Buntline and introducing
two frontier celebrities is the immediate
occassion of the large attendance. It purports
to be a vivid picture of life in the Western
wilds, and is such to a certain extent, - as much,
so as are the average sensational novels on the
same subject, and like the latter full of inconsistences.
The original plan was to concoct
a play to wait the material at
command, and it is apperant that the design
was carried out. "Buffalo Bill" (William F.
Cody), now a member of the Nebraska Legisature,
and Texas Jack, both widely-known scouts,
and a half-dozen genuine Poawnee Indians having
nothing particular to do, stood ready to
accept a historic engagements. They had never
been on any but the overlooked stage, and the
copper-colored portion of the troupe had generally
been accredited with a greater capacity for
robbing than ranting. It occured to Colonial
Judson ("Ned Buntline") that here was a
chance for a sensation. The "Scouts of the
Prairie" was the result, and it proves to be a
sensation. The Pawnees, however, failed to
keep their engagement, probably on account of
pressing duties with references to a projected
horse-stealing expedition, and in their places
have been substituted a collection of talented
supers in tan-colored socks and cambrie
pantalettes. Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack are on
hand however, completely equipped in buckskin
shirts and leggings, and fairly bristling with
revolvers, knives, rifles, etc. Of course, they
look like "Scouts of the Prairie," but they
seem to labor under a distressing uncertainty
as to what they ought to do with their hands
fidgeting uneasily when silent and when in
dialogue poking out the right and then the left
at regular intervals, with an evident determination
to show no favor between the two.
Their elocation differ somewhat from Booth's
and Barrett's, but then E[?]n and Lawrence
are not scouts and cannot be expected to
after the manner of a d[?]fden school-boy in his
maiden effort must not be taken as an [word?]
deuce of meagre dramatic talent or training; [?]
this weakenss of voice and nervousness of deportment
is but an artful [?]mption, designed
to show that beneath the rough exterior of the
daring scout there beats a heart as t[?]er
a chicken's w[?]e his reckless bravado
merely put on to conceal a delicate, sh[?]
[word?] [word?] which has been [word} is [word?]
[word?] [word] under the direct quisitiveness. | 4NIXON'S AMPITHEATRE
This long-neglected place of amusement has
suddenly loomed up as the most largely patronized
of any of the city, and the audience making
up in quantity what they lack in quality.
The drama entitled "Scouts of the Prairie,"
written in Chicago by Ned Buntline and introducing
two frontier celebrities is the immediate
occassion of the large attendance. It purports
to be a vivid picture of life in the Western
wilds, and is such to a certain extent, - as much,
so as are the average sensational novels on the
same subject, and like the latter full of inconsistences.
The original plan was to concoct
a play to wait the material at
command, and it is apperant that the design
was carried out. "Buffalo Bill" (William F.
Cody), now a member of the Nebraska Legisature,
and Texas Jack, both widely-known scouts,
and a half-dozen genuine Poawnee Indians having
nothing particular to do, stood ready to
accept a historic engagements. They had never
been on any but the overlooked stage, and the
copper-colored portion of the troupe had generally
been accredited with a greater capacity for
robbing than ranting. It occured to Colonial
Judson ("Ned Buntline") that here was a
chance for a sensation. The "Scouts of the
Prairie" was the result, and it proves to be a
sensation. The Pawnees, however, failed to
keep their engagement, probably on account of
pressing duties with references to a projected
horse-stealing expedition, and in their places
have been substituted a collection of talented
supers in tan-colored socks and cambrie
pantalettes. Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack are on
hand however, completely equipped in buckskin
shirts and leggings, and fairly bristling with
revolvers, knives, rifles, etc. Of course, they
look like "Scouts of the Prairie," but they
seem to labor under a distressing uncertainty
as to what they ought to do with their hands
fidgeting uneasily when silent and when in
dialogue poking out the right and then the left
at regular intervals, with an evident determination
to show no favor between the two.
Their elocation differ somewhat from Booth's
and Barrett's, but then E[?]n and Lawrence
are not scouts and cannot be expected to
after the manner of a d[?]fden school-boy in his
maiden effort must not be taken as an [word?]
deuce of meagre dramatic talent or training; [?]
this weakenss of voice and nervousness of deportment
is but an artful [?]mption, designed
to show that beneath the rough exterior of the
daring scout there beats a heart as t[?]er
a chicken's w[?]e his reckless bravado
merely put on to conceal a delicate, sh[?]
[word?] [word?] which has been [word} is [word?]
[word?] [word] under the direct quisitiveness. |
