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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.

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 audiences
ever within the walls of the building.
Over 1200 tickets were taken at the
doors. The play was enthusiastically
received.

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.--Buffalo Bill and his
Pawnee Chiefs had a $1,000 house last night.
The gallery and family circle were literally
packed with boys, and never were actors more
enthusiastically applauded than Bill, 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-shooting is something
marvelous, and excels the marksmanship
of Frank Frayne, Carver and Boardus. 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 satisfy
the most sanguinary taste, and is not without
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 hoarsness.
---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 (Win. 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 stead audience, and it is always a
profitable one. "The Knight of the Plains"
has merits as a drama. It is the best pla 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 eh 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 Pawnees 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 garce 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

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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.

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 audiences
ever within the walls of the building.
Over 1200 tickets were taken at the
doors. The play was enthusiastically
received.

GRAND OPERA HOUSE.--Buffalo Bill and his
Pawnee Chiefs had a $1,000 house last night.
The gallery and family circle were literally
packed with boys, and never were actors more
enthusiastically applauded than Bill, 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-shooting is something
marvelous, and excels the marksmanship
of Frank Frayne, Carver and Boardus. 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 satisfy
the most sanguinary taste, and is not without
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