Word: hood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is an old one, which wears well because it appeals to man's desire to be free of convention. A London lady, Joan Fontaine, bored by her secluded life, falls in love with a dashing but thoroughly honorable Robin Hood of the sea, Arturo de Cordova. The story is a romantic and glorified one, but it is not false. No old maid's happy ending makes a travesty of the film...
...Camp Hood...
...revival also proved, to those who had never known it, that Robin Hood's composer, the late Henry Louis Reginald de Koven, was a good deal more than a convenient rhyme for Beethoven - he was one of the deftest and most ingratiating composers outside the heavyweight class...
...dazzlingly elegant De Koven wrote 20 operettas and two grand operas. So little faith did The Bostonians have in Robin Hood that they spent exactly $109.50 on its Chicago premiere. Wrote one of its early critics: "It is always well to drown the first litter of pups. Therefore, it may be proper to forgive Messrs...
Smith and De Koven." But Robin Hood's success mounted so fast that The Bostonians alone gave it 4,250 performances, and netted De Koven and his librettist over a million dollars...