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DETROIT OPERA HOUSE. -- An impossible melodrama by Prentiss Ingraham, entitled "The Knight of the Plains, or Buffalo Bill's Best Trail" was presented last night at the Detroit Opera House. As a play it is an incongruous mass of incidents too absurd to warrant serious critical treatment; but there are some entertaining exhibitions of good marksmanship, Indian dances in which several genuine Aborigines cut an odd figure, a live donkey, whose antics delight the gallery patrons, and a great deal of "wild Western" desperation, wickedness, high and low comedy, gleaming knives, murderous tomahawks, navy revolvers and all the and all the other concomitants of the average border drama. The Hon. W. F. Cody is no doubt a first-rate scout, but it may as well be confessed that he is a very indifferent actor. However, the ridiculous stuff called "The Knight of the Plains" was sufficiently "thrilling" to evoke the shrillest yells and whistles from the densely crowded gallery. It will be repeated this afternoon. To-night a play called "May Cody" will be presented.