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Buffalo Bill.

As will be seen by advertisement elsewhere
Buffalo Bill will tread the boards
at the Opera House next Tuesday evening,
November 4th. Of him and his
performance a late number of the Burlington
Hawkeye says:

The melo-drama in which Mr. Cody
appeared on Thursday night is properly
named, for no one holds a better right to
the title "Kight of the Plains: than he
does, for he has long been distinguished
in the army and on the frontier as the
"Prince of the Prairiemen."

Though essentially a border play, Col.
Prentiss Ingraham, the author has so interwoven
social life with the wild scenes
upon the prairie, and introduced into it
the refining element of lovely woman
that it is toned down from the "blood
and thunder" of the stereotyped frontier
drama.

Buffalo Bill as "himself" exhibits a
fine bit of acting, and the character he
impersonates of English nobleman and
detectives are exceedingly natural and
good.

"Wild Nelli," the border heroine,
and a wild, passionate outcast of the
plains is strongly taken by Miss Lydia
Denier, who also has the advantage of
being a handsome woman as well as a
good actress.

Miss Nellie Jones, as "Rose Melton," is
simply perfect- the refined, lovely, high-
spirted girl she represents, while Mr. J.
J. Louden as the designing villain, sport
and outlaw, "Ralph Royston," proves
himself a dramatic student who fully
grasps the character he has to play.

The other characters are equally well
sustained.