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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.

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.