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BUFFALO BILL TO NIGHT.
The Omaha Republican says:
Buffalo Bill was given a royal reception last evening upon the occasion of his appearance at the Academy of Music. The theatre was packed full, and even standing room was at a premium. No larger audience ever assembled in the Academy, nor have we ever seen a more enthusiastic and better pleased audience. For several years Buffalo Bill has been playing with marked success throughout the East, and we were glad to see him receive such a warm welcome last evening upon his appearance in Omaha, the metropolis of the state on whose borders he acquired much of his fame as a cout, guide, hunter, Indian fighter and frontiersman. He has become quite an actor and looms up brilliantly as a star in the theatrical [?].The play was 'The Prairie Waif," written especially for bim by John A. Stevens, author of "Unknown" and other dramas, and who was formerly a citizen of Omaha. This drama is well written and has a good plot, embracing principally some interesting scenes and incidents in Buffalo Bill's life. The company supporting Bill is a very good one, having been carefully selected with a view of each member being adapted to the part assigned. Julie Keen, the Dutch come dian, as Hans, was unusually funny, and Miss Nellie Lingard, as Sadie, helped to greatly amuse the audience.