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AT THE AMUSEMENT HALLS.
Buffalo Bill's "Prairie Waif"-Apollo Club Concert-Theatrical Talk.
The readers of dime novels and weekly story papers turned out en masse at the Grand Opera House, last evening, to witness the delectable and blood-curdling adventures of Buffalo Bill and his band of Cheyenne Indians. The galleries were so densly packed that wails of anguish from the numerous small boy, who, like Atlas, was forced to bear the weight of those behind and above hime, continually mingled with the dialogue on the stage. Every seat in the lower part of the house was taken, and if this be the sign of success the entertainment provided by Buffalo Bill must be classed as strong. There is no doubt that to the lovers of Yellow-covered literature-thanks to the graphic pen of Ned Buntline-Mr. Cody is a great hero. To them he is also a great actor, for he simply reproduces scenes and incidents in which during his perilous experience as a Western scout and guide, he took an active part. It may be said that what literature was prior to the birth of ten-cent scalping romances the stage was without its Buffalo Bill. The performance of the latter, therfore, like that of other heroes of the plains who have essayed the stage, must be judged from a corresponding standpoint, Those who regard the dimenovel as an unhealthy growthwill have the same opinion of the stage performance of the "Begger's Opera" in London invariably increased the number o;f thefts coimmited, and when we remembered how many yoths, after reading the thrilling imposssible adventuires of western heroes, steal a sum of money and depart for the supposed lasnd of romance, there can be no doubt that the influence exerted by exaggerations of Western Lifeover the minds of the rising generation is not something we need.