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The Scouts.
"Two scouts" were greeted with a very large house last evening, and their performance met with great favor. It is really of a better character than the general impression gives it credit for. The farce with which the entertainment opens is an unusually good one, serving especially to show the somewhat remarkable talents of M'lle Morlacchi. This lady if we remember correctly, floated to this country in the great inundation of ballet dancers which followed the astounding success of the "Black Crook," and its successor the "White Fawn" She appeared in New York but her great success was in prim, proper, puritanical, Boston. She took the mordern Athenians by storm, and the writer remembers seeing on one occasion the packed audience of the Theatre Comique, standing on their feet and throwing their hats in the air in a passion of enthusiasm over the wonderfal pas and poses of the beautiful danseuse. Then she retired from the stage bought a farm in Bilerica, a town near Boston, and turned practical granger, and the story is told of a New York manager coming to secure her for an engagement and finding the queen of the footlights in the field digging. potatoes. Then we heard of her with Ned Buntline's party, and later of her marriage to "Texas Jack." And now we find her developed into a sparkling commedienne, singing, acting and talking English with a pleasing accent, which captivates alike the parquette and the gallery.

But the farce in the estimation of the boys is only a "talking piece" as we heard one of them say last night. It is the "Scouts of the Plains" that is the great attraction. Abounding in incongruities, gun powder and Indians, there is still a great deal of fun and interest in the play, and it is not more improbable than half the stuff that -holds the stage at the present time. "The Scouts" show signs of improvement as actors and Mr. Cody especially has improved both in elocution and gesture. The company which supports them is an unusually good one including Mr. Frank Mordaunt, an actor of much merit. The last performance will take place this evening.