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AMUSEMENTS.
Buffalo Bill.

Hon. Wm. F. Cody and his company, together with Dr. Powell, medicine chief of the Winnebagos, and his band of Sioux Indians, appeared to a crowded house last evening in "The Prairie Waif." The play is from the pen of the well-known John Stevens, former manager of Tootle's opera house, and avoids as much as possible the sensational element which has heretofore characterized Indian dramas. There are plenty of sensational situations in the play, of course, but throughout there is an interspersion of scenes which would be a credit to a production with a title less suggestive of bowie knives and Indian scalps. The scene of the second act, representing the happy home of the buffalo hunter in Utah, is a charming picture of western home life which appeals to every heart. The play on the whole is a decided improvement on modern frontier literature, and we think Mr. Cody deserves credit for thus encouraging an author's innovation on a field which has heretofore been sacred to the pen of the blood and thunderwriter. Mr. Cody of course assumes the leading part, but the rest of the company are given plenty of opportunity, and, some really meritorious acting was done; among others by Mr. Bally who, as Stanley, was exceptionally good, by Mr. Jule Keen as Hans, Mr. Conklin as Lone Deer, and Miss Gilbert and Nellie Lingard. The laughter was incessant and at times the actors were compelled to desist for the uproarious applause that greeted the quickly-varying scenes. The Indian encampment and the dance in the last act constituted a novel and realistic feature and formed a fitting close to a stirring frontier drama.

AMUSEMENTS.
Buffalo Bill.

Hon. Wm. F. Cody and his company, together with Dr. Powell, medicine chief of the Winnebagos, and his band of Sioux Indians, appeared to a crowded house last evening in "The Prairie Waif." The play is from the pen of the well-known John Stevens, former manager of Tootle's opera house, and avoids as much as possible the sensational element which has heretofore characterized Indian dramas. There are plenty of sensational situations in the play, of course, but throughout there is an interspersion of scenes which would be a credit to a production with a title less suggestive of bowie knives and Indian scalps. The scene of the second act, representing the happy home of the buffalo hunter in Utah, is a charming picture of western home life which appeals to every heart. The play on the whole is a decided improvement on modern frontier literature, and we think Mr. Cody deserves credit for thus encouraging an author's innovation on a field which has heretofore been sacred to the pen of the blood and thunderwriter. Mr. Cody of course assumes the leading part, but the rest of the company are given plenty of opportunity, and, some really meritorious acting was done; among others by Mr. Bally who, as Stanley, was exceptionally good, by Mr. Jule Keen as Hans, Mr. Conklin as Lone Deer, and Miss Gilbert and Nellie Lingard. The laughter was incessant and at times the actors were compelled to desist for the uproarious applause that greeted the quickly-varying scenes. The Indian encampment and the dance in the last act constituted a novel and realistic feature and formed a fitting close to a stirring frontier drama.