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"THE SCOUTS OF THE PLAISS" - Park Opera House had a large audience last night, parquette, balcony, and gallery being each well filled to see the three famous scouts and their dramas, which is an entirely new one. The three principals dress in the half-savage, picturesque costume of trappers and carry shooting-irons of most elegant manufacture, which they use with alariabness unsurpassed in history.
The drama has scarce the shadow of a plot and is like an animated dime novel with the Indian-killing multiplied by ten, but for all that, it "Was enjoyable and heartily enjoyed, and the bloodier the tragedy the broader was the comedy. The stroy is that Jim Daws a horse theif and a renegade, has stolen a child from Uncle Henry Carter, a friend of the sconts. Daws gets marked in the tight consequent thereon and vows revenge. He becomes leader of the Comanches, kills off old Carter and his wife in the first act and carries off the other two daughters. Time and again throughout the four sets, either the gırle or the Scouts are in imminent danger, and there are three or four scenes of burning at the stake, but there are always one or two of the terrible couta who happen along and handle their titles and pistols with a celebrity that could only be attained by a great deal of practice. “Pale Dove," A Cornancho beauty (who afterwards is discovered to be the stolen girl), tells the pale faces of their danger and is one of those bound to the stake and rescuol. All through the play there is a Quaker Peace Commissioner attended by his German servant, dropping everywhere most inopportunely, and who gets scalped - as he deserves - before the close. Morlacchi (Pale Dove) daneed divinely, and Nick Blundet gave "Dot leotlo German Band" very nicely. We might mention a slight incongruity in the pieco, and that is, the frequency with which the same tribe of Indians are wiped out, but the oftener they were shot down, the better the audience liked it, and roared with laughter in unison with parks of artillery exploding out there stage We haven't space to follow the play throughout, or to speak Individually qf the characters, but there is merit there, the Quaker and the German : being especially funny, and some of the scenes are very well arranged. But whether or no it would stand criticism, it certainly has the merit of being a "taking" piece, and furnished a vast fund of enjoyment for everybody.