| Page 32Buffalo Bill.
The famous government scout, the Hon. W. F. Cody, who has taken advantage of the notoriety afforded him by blood and thunder stories which have appeared in such trashy weekly story papers as the New York Weekly, etc., to lay up for himself earthly treasures, and considerable of them, appeared to the Grand, last evening, to an audience which was of course large. A glance at the audience was enough to assure one of their mental calibre. The piece Buffalo Bill (the sobriquet in which Cody delights) plays this season, is an excessively startling composition, entitles, "The Prairie Waif," in which villainous Mormon elders, Dutch and Irish comedians, blood-thirsty Indians, an interesting heroine and a singing soubrette are amazingly mixed up. this stuff immeasurably delights a certain class, who frantically expressed their approbation as the play proceeded. "The Prairie Waif" is by JohnAwful Stevens, who recently annoyed a Fort Wayne audience with another of his own astonishing productions called "Unknown." In justice to him, be it stated that the affair constructed for Mr. Cody is the best of his endeavors. Though built with a view to the display of the shooting and scalping abilities of the star, it is free from the gory characteristics common to plays of the kind. Mr. Cody himself, who derives his title of "Honorable" from the fact that he was once a member of the legislature of a western state, is not a remarkable actor, but has a picturesque presence and abstains from rant. His support was very capable. Miss Lizzie Fletcher, formerly leading lady of the Academy of Music, chicago, played the part of Onita the Waif very nicely. She has much improved since we last saw her in Chicago. Miss Connie thompson a vivacious young lady who has a very good reputation in soubrette parts was much applauded in her song and dance with Jule Keen. She acted the character of Sadie, which though having no relevancy to the plot, is expected in every play of this sort. Jule Keen, a clever "Dutch" comedian who used to star with Sallie Adams in the play of "Chris and Lena," seen here, was amusing as Hans, Bill's servant. the rest of the cast were quite up the mark. The rifle shooting in the second act by Buffalo Bill was startlingly accurate. He has a magnificent Winchester rifle. The special scenery and properties, many of them very expensive and collected by the star during his eventful life on the plains, were an entertaining feature. In brief, an hour can be profitably spent in the contemplation Mr. Cody's acting, for the reason that he is a man far above the ordinary. The romance of the back-woods which attaches to him is genuine. The company play at Logansport to-night.
BUFFALO BILL.
The admireres of "Buffalo Bill" are not a class of people to be easily intimidated by blustering weather, and if the storm of last evening had any effect upon the size of the audience, it was not perceptible. The galleries groaned with the weight they sustained and air quivered with the shouts of applause. "Buffalo Bill" is the ideal hero of the boys and they never fail to show their adoration in the most gratifying form.
AMUSEMENTS.
MASONIC THEATER.--Buffalo Bill opened to something like a $500 house, last night. The gallery was crowded and downstairs nearly full. Bill's admirers were out in force, and very enthusiastic as to his new play, It has the one advantage over the previous ones, that not so much gunpowder is expended. There is less indiscriminate shooting. The characters in the cast are about the same, down even to the Dutchman and his donkey. Bill introduces an exhibition of his remarkable shooting. An improvement, too, may be noted in his acting and delivery. The Dutch character is taken by Mr. Keene, a clever comedian, who kept the audience laughing all the while he was on the stage. Miss Lizzie Fletcher and Miss Carrie Thompson sustained acceptably the female characters, and with the rest of the cast the audience had no reason to complan.
There will be this afternoon a matinee performance, for which the sale of seats has been large. To-night's performance closes the engagement.
At the Academy Last Night.
Talk about large houses! The Academy of Music contained such an overflowing audience last night as seldom assembleswithin its walls. Every seat i the house was occupied and over a hundred persons were compelled to stand. Such an outpouring of the "gallery gods" never was witnessed before, as the boys were packed in like sardines, and like all big crowds noisy and overflowing with good nature. Every good and telling point (and there are many) was vociferously applauded. If there be any personas who think that Buffalo Bill and his company only furnish blood and thunder calculated to please the boys, they are mightily mistaken. "Prairie Waif" is a better drama and better performed by this company than any we have seen at the Academy of Music. It abounds in startling situations, well acted throughout and well put opon the stage, and running through the entire play is enough of comedy and side acting of a humorous nature to make the whole intensely interesting. For a promiscuous audience, such as Buffalo Bill usually draws, a better and more appreciative entertainment is not to be found in America to-day. If "Prairie Waif" was played again to-night, the Academy would be just as crowded, and that too with the same people who were present last night. The play was put on the stage to please the multiture, and right well does it succeed is the verdict of every one.
The Prairie Waif.
The Buffalo Bill combination played last evening before a full house, which is usually that case since as it has been truly said this attraction draws like a circus. there were coticeably fewer of those sanguinary scenes which formed the strong points in Buffalo Bill's first entertainment and the "Prairie Waif" was construed with some diea of the eternal fitness of things. Mr. Cody's feats of marksmanship earned merited applause and his assumption of three Western characters showed him in a better dramatic light than ever before. The piece is filled with exciting incidents, properly relieved with love passages and humorous by-play and sense of appreciation. The introduction of a band of Cheyenne Indians added to the strong Western flavor of the drama and proved an acceptable novelty. To admirers of frontier life, viewed at a safe distance, the play met with the heartiest approval.
"Prairie Waif."
JOHN A. STEVEN'S new and interesting border drama, entitled "Prairie Waif," was produced in this city for the first time last Saturday night, in the Arcade Opera House, by the Buffalo Bill Combination. The play was witnessed by a packed audience, who testified their appreciation by frequent and hearty applause. Incidentally "Buffalo Bill" showed his audience how to handle a rifle and his display of marksmanship was simply marvelous.
A PLEASANT GATHERING.
Last evening's performance at the Academy of Music closed the season for which the company organized to support Buffalo Bill were engaged. It had proved a very successful season financially, and harmony and good feeling had been the rule with the members of the combination throughout. After the play, and as a recognition of the worth of the company and an expression of his esteem, the manager gave them a very elegant wine supper at Gerot's restaurant. Seldom is there seen so happy a gathering about the festive boards, and no description could fully set forth the agreeable character of the occation. The famous scout, Buffalo Bill, or rather, we should say, the succesful manager, actor, and dead shot, the Hon. Wm. F. Cody, sat at the head of the long table. Mr. John Meech, the modest though handsome manager of the Academy, and a few other invited guests were present in addition to the members of the late company. Of course, there were toasts and recitations, and music by the Academy orchestra, and even the Indians made little speeches which were interpreted, and being notably characteristic, enlisted much interest and caused no little amusement. It was quite late when the gathreing separated, agreeing that the occasion had been signally enjoyable. Mr. Cody leaves the city this afternoon.
Buffalo Bill.
Buffalo Bill (Hon. William Cody) and his company of artists played to an immense audience at Dolan's opera house last night. "The Prairie Waif," the drama portrayed, is a story of the Far West, made up of incoherent, disjointed and improbable events, constructed much on the plan of literary architecture peculiar to one of Beadle's yellow backs. The play, however, gives abundany opportunity for the display of Buffalo Bill's prowess as a scout and skill as a marksman, and as such it is a success. The troupe depicts all that there is in the play. Its rendition is exceedingly dizzy. The air becomes hazy with flying scalps, the stage drips with gore metaphorically speaking, and ever and anon the gallery gods rent the air with their plaudits of approval. Buffalo Bill is a character known and admired throughout the entire land, and his name is sufficient to insure a crowded house. He is the type of physical and manly beauty and perfection, and his feats with firearms as exhibited last night were almost incredible. taken as a whole the show is an amusing one and worthy of success.
BUFFALO BILL.
Of course the Opera House was filled last evening, but it was scarcely expected such a well-made house would occupy the down stair seats. It is a fact, however, that more and more ladies attend these performances each time. There is less blood and thunder than formerly and "Prairie Waif" is a regualr story, the thread of which is connected and followed up from act to act. The play is arrayed ato set off Buffalo Bill as much as possible, but it still gives the others a fair show. In the course of the performance Bill does some fancy shooting, giving an exhibition of marvelous skill. The trained donkey comes in for its share, as do also the the torupe of Cheyenne Indians. Buffalo Bill is always good for a large house in Wheeling.
BUFFALO BILL.
W. F. Cody and his company presented "The Prairie Waif" at the Opera House, last evening, to a large audience. The play is an improvement off 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 prolonged applause. One of the features was the trained donkey "Jerry." | Page 32Buffalo Bill.
The famous government scout, the Hon. W. F. Cody, who has taken advantage of the notoriety afforded him by blood and thunder stories which have appeared in such trashy weekly story papers as the New York Weekly, etc., to lay up for himself earthly treasures, and considerable of them, appeared to the Grand, last evening, to an audience which was of course large. A glance at the audience was enough to assure one of their mental calibre. The piece Buffalo Bill (the sobriquet in which Cody delights) plays this season, is an excessively startling composition, entitles, "The Prairie Waif," in which villainous Mormon elders, Dutch and Irish comedians, blood-thirsty Indians, an interesting heroine and a singing soubrette are amazingly mixed up. this stuff immeasurably delights a certain class, who frantically expressed their approbation as the play proceeded. "The Prairie Waif" is by JohnAwful Stevens, who recently annoyed a Fort Wayne audience with another of his own astonishing productions called "Unknown." In justice to him, be it stated that the affair constructed for Mr. Cody is the best of his endeavors. Though built with a view to the display of the shooting and scalping abilities of the star, it is free from the gory characteristics common to plays of the kind. Mr. Cody himself, who derives his title of "Honorable" from the fact that he was once a member of the legislature of a western state, is not a remarkable actor, but has a picturesque presence and abstains from rant. His support was very capable. Miss Lizzie Fletcher, formerly leading lady of the Academy of Music, chicago, played the part of Onita the Waif very nicely. She has much improved since we last saw her in Chicago. Miss Connie thompson a vivacious young lady who has a very good reputation in soubrette parts was much applauded in her song and dance with Jule Keen. She acted the character of Sadie, which though having no relevancy to the plot, is expected in every play of this sort. Jule Keen, a clever "Dutch" comedian who used to star with Sallie Adams in the play of "Chris and Lena," seen here, was amusing as Hans, Bill's servant. the rest of the cast were quite up the mark. The rifle shooting in the second act by Buffalo Bill was startlingly accurate. He has a magnificent Winchester rifle. The special scenery and properties, many of them very expensive and collected by the star during his eventful life on the plains, were an entertaining feature. In brief, an hour can be profitably spent in the contemplation Mr. Cody's acting, for the reason that he is a man far above the ordinary. The romance of the back-woods which attaches to him is genuine. The company play at Logansport to-night.
BUFFALO BILL.
The admireres of "Buffalo Bill" are not a class of people to be easily intimidated by blustering weather, and if the storm of last evening had any effect upon the size of the audience, it was not perceptible. The galleries groaned with the weight they sustained and air quivered with the shouts of applause. "Buffalo Bill" is the ideal hero of the boys and they never fail to show their adoration in the most gratifying form.
AMUSEMENTS.
MASONIC THEATER.--Buffalo Bill opened to something like a $500 house, last night. The gallery was crowded and downstairs nearly full. Bill's admirers were out in force, and very enthusiastic as to his new play, It has the one advantage over the previous ones, that not so much gunpowder is expended. There is less indiscriminate shooting. The characters in the cast are about the same, down even to the Dutchman and his donkey. Bill introduces an exhibition of his remarkable shooting. An improvement, too, may be noted in his acting and delivery. The Dutch character is taken by Mr. Keene, a clever comedian, who kept the audience laughing all the while he was on the stage. Miss Lizzie Fletcher and Miss Carrie Thompson sustained acceptably the female characters, and with the rest of the cast the audience had no reason to complan.
There will be this afternoon a matinee performance, for which the sale of seats has been large. To-night's performance closes the engagement.
At the Academy Last Night.
Talk about large houses! The Academy of Music contained such an overflowing audience last night as seldom assembleswithin its walls. Every seat i the house was occupied and over a hundred persons were compelled to stand. Such an outpouring of the "gallery gods" never was witnessed before, as the boys were packed in like sardines, and like all big crowds noisy and overflowing with good nature. Every good and telling point (and there are many) was vociferously applauded. If there be any personas who think that Buffalo Bill and his company only furnish blood and thunder calculated to please the boys, they are mightily mistaken. "Prairie Waif" is a better drama and better performed by this company than any we have seen at the Academy of Music. It abounds in startling situations, well acted throughout and well put opon the stage, and running through the entire play is enough of comedy and side acting of a humorous nature to make the whole intensely interesting. For a promiscuous audience, such as Buffalo Bill usually draws, a better and more appreciative entertainment is not to be found in America to-day. If "Prairie Waif" was played again to-night, the Academy would be just as crowded, and that too with the same people who were present last night. The play was put on the stage to please the multiture, and right well does it succeed is the verdict of every one.
The Prairie Waif.
The Buffalo Bill combination played last evening before a full house, which is usually that case since as it has been truly said this attraction draws like a circus. there were coticeably fewer of those sanguinary scenes which formed the strong points in Buffalo Bill's first entertainment and the "Prairie Waif" was construed with some diea of the eternal fitness of things. Mr. Cody's feats of marksmanship earned merited applause and his assumption of three Western characters showed him in a better dramatic light than ever before. The piece is filled with exciting incidents, properly relieved with love passages and humorous by-play and sense of appreciation. The introduction of a band of Cheyenne Indians added to the strong Western flavor of the drama and proved an acceptable novelty. To admirers of frontier life, viewed at a safe distance, the play met with the heartiest approval.
"Prairie Waif."
JOHN A. STEVEN'S new and interesting border drama, entitled "Prairie Waif," was produced in this city for the first time last Saturday night, in the Arcade Opera House, by the Buffalo Bill Combination. The play was witnessed by a packed audience, who testified their appreciation by frequent and hearty applause. Incidentally "Buffalo Bill" showed his audience how to handle a rifle and his display of marksmanship was simply marvelous.
A PLEASANT GATHERING.
Last evening's performance at the Academy of Music closed the season for which the company organized to support Buffalo Bill were engaged. It had proved a very successful season financially, and harmony and good feeling had been the rule with the members of the combination throughout. After the play, and as a recognition of the worth of the company and an expression of his esteem, the manager gave them a very elegant wine supper at Gerot's restaurant. Seldom is there seen so happy a gathering about the festive boards, and no description could fully set forth the agreeable character of the occation. The famous scout, Buffalo Bill, or rather, we should say, the succesful manager, actor, and dead shot, the Hon. Wm. F. Cody, sat at the head of the long table. Mr. John Meech, the modest though handsome manager of the Academy, and a few other invited guests were present in addition to the members of the late company. Of course, there were toasts and recitations, and music by the Academy orchestra, and even the Indians made little speeches which were interpreted, and being notably characteristic, enlisted much interest and caused no little amusement. It was quite late when the gathreing separated, agreeing that the occasion had been signally enjoyable. Mr. Cody leaves the city this afternoon.
Buffalo Bill.
Buffalo Bill (Hon. William Cody) and his company of artists played to an immense audience at Dolan's opera house last night. "The Prairie Waif," the drama portrayed, is a story of the Far West, made up of incoherent, disjointed and improbable events, constructed much on the plan of literary architecture peculiar to one of Beadle's yellow backs. The play, however, gives abundany opportunity for the display of Buffalo Bill's prowess as a scout and skill as a marksman, and as such it is a success. The troupe depicts all that there is in the play. Its rendition is exceedingly dizzy. The air becomes hazy with flying scalps, the stage drips with gore metaphorically speaking, and ever and anon the gallery gods rent the air with their plaudits of approval. Buffalo Bill is a character known and admired throughout the entire land, and his name is sufficient to insure a crowded house. He is the type of physical and manly beauty and perfection, and his feats with firearms as exhibited last night were almost incredible. taken as a whole the show is an amusing one and worthy of success.
BUFFALO BILL.
Of course the Opera House was filled last evening, but it was scarcely expected such a well-made house would occupy the down stair seats. It is a fact, however, that more and more ladies attend these performances each time. There is less blood and thunder than formerly and "Prairie Waif" is a regualr story, the thread of which is connected and followed up from act to act. The play is arrayed ato set off Buffalo Bill as much as possible, but it still gives the others a fair show. In the course of the performance Bill does some fancy shooting, giving an exhibition of marvelous skill. The trained donkey comes in for its share, as do also the the torupe of Cheyenne Indians. Buffalo Bill is always good for a large house in Wheeling.
BUFFALO BILL.
W. F. Cody and his company presented "The Prairie Waif" at the Opera House, last evening, to a large audience. The play is an improvement off 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 prolonged applause. One of the features was the trained donkey "Jerry." |
