The Scouts'of the Prairie
A fair-sized audience greeted "the Scouts" at the Opera House last craning. The open-ng farce, Jenny Lind, passed off to the satisfaction all, but of course, the greater interest centered around the play of the evening, Ned Buntline's realistic, sensational drama-The Scouts of the Prairie. From the rising of the curtain on the first act to its going down on the last, the various scenes were watched with intense interest. There is much good acting in the play where the parts require it. But if all the characters were taken by professional artists it would in destroy the naturalness and mar the effect of the play. Border life is not supposed to be very refining or attractive to cultivated tastes, and the more natural it can be persecuted, the better idea is obtained its real character.
There can possibly be none so capable of representing to the life all the varied scenes of border life, as these whose lives have been spent as bravo and active participants in its perils and dangers.
The audience were not disappointed in the appearance of Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, the original heroes, They are splendid specimens of manhood, and act their parts to the life Ned Buntline showed in his portrayal of the character of Cale Durg that the versatile sailor, soldier, author, and post is not without histrionic talents of more than ordinary merit.
The Senorita Carfano is one of the most graceful women we ever saw upon the stage and we have no hesitation; in saying that in the peculiar character, which she sought to portray last evening-Hazel Eye, the girl trapper, beloved of Texas Jack, she could not be excelled. Her impersonation was the vision which may be created in the mind of the enthusiast from persuing the pages of border fiction that could be hoped for. We think her talents in this direction have not been fully recognized.
The "red skins" of course were natural many a bald-headed man gave an involuntary start as lie he stroked the smooth surface of his cranium, after one of those thrilling contests on the stage.
