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The Buffallo Bill party in their drama of the Knight of the Plains drew an immense house last night. The audience was largely composed of people who are not in the habit of looking with a too critical eye upon dramatic efforts, and the result was that shouts of approbation were heard all evening.

The drama is of a higher order of literary merit than those formerly presented by Mr. Cody, but it is a question whether it is, after all, an improvement on the old drama full of realistic and imaginary effects. People who delight in the dramas treating of far Western life were last night surprised and disappointed to see their hero of the buckskin suit and ready rifle and knife walk the stage during considerable of the evening in the habiliments of Eastern civilization, and notwithstanding these were worn as disguises, it was while in his old-time character as the dashing hunter and scout that the hero won his chief plaudits. The people wanted "blud" in border dramas, and while the "Knight of the Plains" enables the hero to stab and shoot one man during the evening, instead of a whole tribe of Indians, as formerly, the people did not get what they expected.

The piece allows some rather thrilling situations, notably the gambling room scene, the prairie fire, and the knife duel.

The company is, on the whole, a fair one.