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...perennial U.S. wedding hymn, Oh, Promise Me, comes, as younger people often fail to realize, from Robin Hood, an operetta of the Mauve Decade. Robin Hood was revived last week on Broadway after 12 years, in the spirit of its original Chicago production by "The Bostonians...
...revival provided some of the rank est dialogue, by the late, hard-working Harry B. Smith, to be heard on Broadway since Robin Hood last played there...
...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...
Strongest in Westphalia, the Feme of 700 years ago had a Robin Hood flavor. But by 1500, the Feme had become a synonym for persecution. Membership had grown above 100,000 and many used the protection of the Feme for their own ends. But such was its terror that less than 100 years ago scrolls sealed by the Feme could still be found in German archives. On the seals was written: "None may read unless he be a juror of the Feme"-and none had read...