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Buffalo Bill will be welcomed gladly tonight
as the finest specimen of the frontiersman
extant. It is real life, and no
man on the stage can ever enter into the
wild life of a hunter and scout as the great
scout himself. The house will be crowded,
just as it should be, if the people want to
see the great Cody re-enact his border life
on the stage.
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THE KNIGHT OF THE PLAINS.
Durley Hall was jammed full of eager
spectators Monday night to witness the
Buffalo Bill combination in their rendition
of the thrilling drama "The Knight
of the Plains." The play is an excellent
dramatization of its peculiar character.
It is replete with happy incidents and
pleasing surprises, as step by step the
whole plan is developed. Buffalo Bill
sustained the leading role in his inimitable
manner, and won deafening applause
for his extraordinary skill as a marksman.
The support was excellent, in fact
far above the average show of even a
higher type. Col. Prentiss Ingraham,
the author of the play and manager of
the troupe, has displayed rare ability in
this gem of border life, in which Buffalo
Bill is the ideal of a frontiersman. Much
of the Dick Turpin, knock down and
drag out feature has been obliterated,
and for a play of its kinds there is none
better.

BUFFALO BILL
Buffalo Bill attracted to the Opera
House last night one of the largest audi-
ences ever within the walls of the build-
ing. Over 1200 tickets were taken at the
doors. The play was enthusiastically re-
ceived.

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.--Buffalo B...ll and his
Pawnee Chiefs had a $1,000 house...last night.
The gallery and family circle we...e literally
packed with boys, and never were...ctors more
enthusiastically applauded than...ill, Nellie,
Red Eagle and the donkey, The...wild-horse
dance was true to the life, and was...performed
by real Indians with regular built...tomahawks
and spears Cody's rifle-shoo...ing is some-
thing marvelous, and excels the marksmanship
of Frank Frayne, Carver and Bo...gardus. The
play, the Knight of the Plains was written by
an old plainsman, Col. Ingraham, a son of
the celebrated preacher-novelist of Mississippi.
It contains blood and thunder enough to satis-
fy the most sanguinary taste, and is not with-
out literary merit.

Although the fall of rain last night might
have astonished Noah, a very large audience
greeted Buffalo Bill at the National Theatre;
the lower portions of the auditorium being
comfortably filled and the family circle ad
gallery packed to overflowing. The perfor-
mance is all that it purports to be, and is a
very vivid portraiture of life on the plains.
Of course, Buffalo Bill is the omnipresent
hero who always appears at the opportune
moment to rescue the heroine, but as he is
dashing, natural ; and a very fair actor, the
situations are pleasing enough, and the au-
dience applauded them even unto hoarseness.
---Washington National Republican.

The "Buffalo Bill" combination en...
tained a large and enthusiastic audienc...
at Rouse's Hall, Saturday night. The
play has less of the blood and thunder in
it than we were led to expect, and the
evening was one of real enjoyment.

Buffalo Bill (Wm. F. Cody), and his company
of actors and Pawnees played a very success-
ful season of a week at the Grand opera-
house. The Buffalo Bill plays were "Knight
of the Plains" and "May Cody ; or, Lost and
Won ;" both new here. They were prefaced
each evening with pleasant farces, and the en-
tertainments were all highly satisfactory to
the patronage. This class of performance has
a sure and steady audience, and it is always a
profitable one. "The Knight of the Plains"
has merits as a drama. It is the best play of
this character that has been seen here without
doubt. It is by Col. Ingrahm, a cultivated
gentleman, who shows by his methods of con-
struction that he understands stage effects.
The language of the play is characteristic and
pointed to the purpose, and the climaxes of
incidet and scene are well arranged. "May

Cody" is not so good as a drama, and is in-
tended chiefly to give scope for the border
drama and plains specialties. This it does,
and passes off well. Mr. Cody is a great im-
provemet on the Buffalo Bill of three or
four years ago as an actor. He is easy, grace-
ful and often effetive. His specialties of rifle-
shooting are attractive, and score a point in
the performane. The Pawnee Indian war-
dance in full war-path costume makes
another point. There is some good comedy in
these entertaiments of the Buffalo Bill, and they
pass off briskly and breezily, and without so
much gunpowder power as was used for-
merly

Buffalo Bill.
------
Seldom does a larger crowd assemble at
the Opera House than that which greeted
the Buffalo Bill Combination on Thursday
evening. The programme was begun by
a farce entitled, presumably, "The Free-
mason," which was a splendid take off on
that order, and kept the house in a contin-
ual good humor and almost constant roar.
In the "Knight of the Plains" the Indian
dance was quite a good representation and
the customary exhibition of skill with the
rifle by Mr. Cody was a success. The com-
pany embraces several actors of more than
mediocre talents. "Moses," "Wild Nellie"
and "Rose" will not soon be forgotten, and
those who were present will frequently
"smile" at the memory of Judge Chinca-
pin. All told this combination is the best
of the dramatic companies that has ever
visited this city.

Grand Opera House.
Buffalo Bill and his combination, which em-
braces a company of genuine Pawnee Indians'
opened a week's engagement at the Grand
Opera House last night to a characteristic au-
dience. The family circle and balcony were
literally packed, in fact the sale of seats to
those parts of the house was discontinued be-
fore 8 o'clock. The only vacant seats to be
found were in the parquette and dress circle.
The play, "Knights of the Plains, or Buffalo
Bill's Best Trail," is of course
decidedly sensational in its character,
is full of blood and love and murder and
gunpowder, and those extravagant situations
which appeal so strongly to the habitues of
the upper tiers. That it met with the hearty
approval of the latter last night was evident
from the vociferous applause that occurred
at brief intervals. It has rather more literary
merit than the dramatic productions hereto-
fore presented by Buffalo Bill, and the sup-
port is also rather above the average. To
those who enjoy the border drama the
"Knights of the Plains" presents a most en-
loyable treat. It will probably have a suc-
...essful fun here.

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
The new border drama, May Cody, or Lost
and Won, drew a good house last night. It
bears some resemblance to the Danites, but
has decided merit of its own. The war-dance
of the Pawnees is a correct representation of
the real dance of that tribe, and is one of the
best things in the play. The trilling scene of
the Mountain Meadow massacre is enacted with
striking effect. Buffalo Bill appears in his own
proper character and under his own name,
and performs some wonderful feats of marks-
manship with his rifle. The Irishman and his
donkey form an amusing feature of the menag-
eric, and the star who takes the part of the
grizzly bear makes an excellent bruin. The
piece is "red-hot" with bloody incidents and
is unequaled, as a Rocky Mountain realistic
drama. It will be repeated to-night and Sat-
urday afternoon.

Grand Opera-House---Buffalo Bill.
The Buffalo Bill style of effort and entertain-
ment is the last extremity of realism on the
stage, which can go no farther than the real
hero re-enacting his own adventures on the
minic scene. In the Buffalo Bill Border
drama we have William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill
himself), the famous plains guide,
scout, buffalo-slayer and Indian-fighter;
several freeborn, native American Indians,
some representatives of renegade whites
turned savages, and a few types of hardy pio-
neers, the advance guard of civilization in the
wilderness. All the elements of American
wild life in antagonism to civilization are in
the stage pictures, with some of the real char-
acters in the foreground. These personal feat-
ures constitute the attraction of the
Buffalo Bill entertainments. Buffalo Bill
and his Pawnee braves, supported by a
very top-heavy attendance. The upper re-
gions of the house were densely crowded, and
there was a very fine dress-circle and parquette
patronage. The play offered was new---"Knight
of the Plains ; or, Buffalo Bill's Best Trail, " a
new name at least. It is in fact the old
border gunpowder and tomahawk scenes
worked over into new shapes
and situations, and, indeed, this
is all that can be done with the material of the
frontier. The action is a struggle of civilized life
for existence against the forces of nature,
human nature included, and the sympathy is
enlisted for and the victory lies with a certain
rugged heroism of which Buffalo Bill is the
type. That is all there is of it but it is enough
to win the plaudits of the audience it at-
tracts. What the play lacks in plot,
it makes up in thrilling incident, and the lack
of dramatic force is compensated by the pres-
ence on the scene of the real persons of the
drama in the stage picutres. Wm. F. Cody
has gained greatly in dramatic ease and force
since he began acting "Buffalo Bill," and
makes a commanding figure in his scenes.
The company does not need special mention
at this time. It is competent for its work.
The scene setting of the play is in realistic
harmony with the actors, and the action and
the motive of the performannce. The "Knight
of the Plains" will be repeated until further
notice.

---Buffalo Bill, the famous Indian
scout, with a first class company,
appears at the opera house to-night.
It has been some time since Wil-
liam has entertained the people of
Quincy, and a large house will
greet his return. As an additional
attraction he has several real 'live,'
big Injins, who take prominent
parts in the entertainment. The
title of his new play is "Knight of
the Plains," and it is said to be a
very thrilling and interesting drama.
We bespeak for Buffalo Bill and his
troupe a crowded house. There is
a peculiar interest attached to this
man, in that he was an actual scout
and has lived for many years among
the savages of the plains, and has
rendered important service to our
governement in that capacity, and
his play embraces actual incidents
of that life.