The Portland daily press., 1882-03-24
MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.
BUFFALO BILL.

BUFFALO BILL.
Tonight Buffalo Bill will appear at Portland
Theatre for the first time this season, and will
also give performance Saturday night. The
/ Cincinnati Enquirer says ellis play OF the
Prairie Wait has interest, and is crowded with
exciting scenes, dealing with life on the Dor
der. The plot is simple, dealing with the cap
ture by the Indians of little child, her rescue
after years by the guide buffalo BID who
carefully protects her till she becomes loving
and beautiful woman, and in the end is re-
warded for his kindness by the hand of the
Prairie Wait 1t is decidedly the best border
drama in which he has ever appeared. and diff
fers from the general run OF this class OF plays,
from the fact that several thousand Indians are
not killed in nearly every scene. Buffalo Bill
is, of course, the principal figure He shows
improvement in his acting, and his fine figure
and good looks make favorite with all, he
being loudly, and at times boisterously APP
plauded in most every scene in which he TOOK
part"
PINAFoRE.
The cast of Pinafore, which will be given at
City Hall, March 2Sth, is one of the best that
could be gathered together-as far as the must.
cal qualifications of the artists are concerned
in this country The sale of seats has already
good places can still be secured.
NOTES.
1t is evident that the New York critics shar-
pened their pencils when they went to see An
ma Dckenson's Hamlet" Saturday she es-
says "Claude."
The Lewiston Zouaves have engaged Cham
dler's Band to play for their street parade,
April 18th, and for a concert before their ball
in City Hall.
The Temple Quartette, Miss Helen Nash,
Lewiston, soprano, Miss Ruth G. Long, Port
land, contralto, Mr. Will III. Stockbridge, Port
and, tenor, and Mr.. Harvey Murray Lewiston,
pianist, will assist at thesCary concert.
London is to have theatre devoted to anna
Tours 1t will be situated on the Strand The
fact offers an opportunity for punsters to say
something about strandedlplayers
The latest report concerning MIS-. Langtry is
but will act in England for the present ii she
remains upon the stage.
The most extensive preparations are making
for the production Of the Lights O London"
at the Park in Boston, next Monday. All the
scenic artists, carpenters, machlnists and prop
erty men in the employ of Abbey q Schoetfel
in New York and Boston have been engaged
for the past two months IN the work, and the
result will be production far surprising that
given at the Union Square Theatre. Mr.. y. w.
been largely augmented by the addition OF all
the extra members of A. M. Palmer's compa-
ny, among whom are Ellie Wilton, Edna Cary,
e. f. Thorne, e. j. Buckley, +. f. Mackay,
and many others of note.
An incident of quite an exciting nature oc-
CURED at the Chestnut Street Opera House in
Philadelphia, Tuesday evening during the
dressing room scene of Edmund Kean, IN
which Signor Rossi was playing. When the
finding Of the Countess's fan in his room by
her husband was made clear to Kean, Slgnor
Rossi sprang up, and tearing away the cloth
which the hair-dresssr had placed about his
shoulders, he hurled it toward the dressing
bureau. In its flight it upset candlestick on
the bureau, and before its discovery the flames
fairly caught in the lace with which the glass
alarmed, as the flames burst out frightfully
near one of the flies. Somebody shouted to the
people on the stage. Rossi turned, and discov-
ering the danger stepped quickly to the spot,
tore down the curtains and soon smothered
the fire. Then he faced the audience and said
in an aside, as If taking the anxious people In
front into his confidence, "Eet ees all right;
Eet ees in re play" Confidence was restored
on the moment and the play proceeded,