BUFFALO BILL.

Grey River Argus, 13 April 1911, Page 5

BUFFALO BILL.

On Easter Monday next the Messrs McMahon commence a season at the Opera House of star pictures for three nights. On Monday and Tuesday the great American film "Buffalo Bill" will be screened and- the season will conclude on Wednesday with a dramatic film "The Squatter's Daughter." • • •

Criticising Buffalo Bill a Wellington contemporary is as follows : —

It is a circus on a stupendous seale — plenty of space for daredevil riders and ; horses, elephants, and g-aiety ,g*rls to stir up the dust. A grand parade shows men of many nations, in native costumes, filing past, and when the signal for motion comes things do move amain. Highly-educated horses and elephants prance and prank about : wild chargers flash .by, with reckless cossacks, in their buckled great-coats, hanging by the stirrup ; United States cavalrymen whirl along, in all sorts of amazing 1 poses ; Arabian acrobats and apanese jugglers, as .clever as they are quick, hold the gaze fast ; Bed Indians trek in, and are routed dreadfully by the pitiless mounted troopers. "Buffalo ■ Bill's"- men lassoo. some gallop ing horses, and chase .some buffaloes up and down the arena with revolver shots to stimulate the bulky fugitives. Choicest turn of all is the drilling of Devlin's Zouaves, a troop of military magicians. Enthusiastic Territorials should see these Zouaves, who manoeuvre wth dazzling- bi'illiancy; the quickness of the foot deceives the eye ; they juggle with theij feet. A Mexican romance hero, heroine, villain— furnished some excitement for the audience, and they had other pictures, grave and gay, chiefly gay, to help the circus. The. best of these incidentals was the sad fate that developed for a desperado, "Cyclone iPete," who "toad advertised for a wife. Something very pretty and dainty arrived at the ranch and "Cyclone Pete's" domestic education began. ; He,. who once flashed revolver at stage-coaches, was forced to flourish a .broom and peel po- v tatoes. The "cyclone" died down to th" gentlest zephyr .