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    Basil Willett Charles Hood (5 April 1864 – 7 August 1917) was a British dramatist and lyricist, perhaps best known for writing the libretti of half a dozen...
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    inter-war theorist Basil Hetzel (1922–2017), Australian medical researcher Basil Hiley (born 1935), British quantum physicist Basil Hood (1864–1917), British...
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    new Savoy Opera was The Rose of Persia (music by Sullivan, libretto by Basil Hood), which ran from 28 November 1899 – 28 June 1900. After Carte's death...
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  • Paymaster-Captain Basil Frederick Hood CBE DSO (20 September 1886 – 10 January 1941) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy. Basil Frederick Hood was born on...
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    Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, and Alan Hale. Upon its premiere on May 14, 1938, The Adventures of Robin Hood was...
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    Godfrey Charles Hood (1857-1903); Colin Charles Hood (1857-1915); Florence Mary Hood Ricardo (1858-1905); Basil Willett Charles Hood (1864-1917), a playwright...
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    Philip St. John Basil Rathbone MC (13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967) was an Anglo-South African actor. He rose to prominence in the United Kingdom as a Shakespearean...
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    "English rose" is found in Merrie England (1902), a comic opera written by Basil Hood. He describes a garden where "women are the flowers" and in which "the...
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  • Robin Hood is a 2018 American action-adventure film directed by Otto Bathurst and written by Ben Chandler and David James Kelly, from a story by Chandler...
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    Basilotta (born September 22, 1943), better known by her stage name Toni Basil, is an American singer, choreographer, dancer, actress, and director. Her...
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    Basil William Iwanyk (born January 4, 1970) is an American film producer. He is the founder of Thunder Road Films and most known for the films Sicario...
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    known for a series of successful musical comedies. The French Maid, by Basil Hood, with music by Walter Slaughter, first played in London at Terry's Theatre...
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    light opera Merrie England by Sir Edward German (1902), the librettist Basil Hood introduces another impersonation of Herne as a device to induce a change...
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    farcical musical comedy with music by Walter Slaughter and a libretto by Basil Hood. The original production of the musical opened at the Prince of Wales's...
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    The French Maid is a musical comedy in two acts by Basil Hood, with music by Walter Slaughter, first produced at the Theatre Royal, Bath, England, under...
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    publication about Victorian and Edwardian musical theatre. Kenrick, John. Basil Hood, Who's Who in Musicals: Additional Bios XII, Musicals101.com, 2004, accessed...
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    seven scenes for children with lyrics by Basil Hood and music by Walter Slaughter. It was a revised version of Hood and Slaughter's pantomime Hans Andersen's...
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  • Clayface (redirect from Basil Karlo)
    Burroughs. Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the original Clayface, Basil Karlo, appeared in Detective Comics #40 (June 1940) as a B-list actor who...
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  • Basil Brush is a fictional fox best known for his appearances on daytime British children's television. He is primarily portrayed by a glove puppet, but...
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    comic operas for the Savoy with other librettists, most successfully with Basil Hood in The Rose of Persia (1899). Gilbert also wrote several works, some with...
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    Ib and Little Christina refers to two theatrical adaptations by Basil Hood of the 1855 fairy tale by Hans Andersen of the same name: a play (1900) and...
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    musical in three acts, with music by Leo Fall, adapted into English by Basil Hood with lyrics by Adrian Ross (from the 1907 Die Dollarprinzessin with a...
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    an English comic opera in two acts by Edward German to a libretto by Basil Hood. The patriotic story concerns love and rivalries at the court of Queen...
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  • Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport (1788–1868), British politician and peer Basil Hood (1864–1917), British librettist and lyricist Daniel Hood, American...
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    opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and Edward German, and a libretto by Basil Hood. The plot concerns the efforts of an Irish patriot to resist the oppressive...
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    by Basil Hood and Adrian Ross opened at Daly's Theatre, London, on 1 June 1912.[page needed] For the London production, George Edwardes had Hood write...
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    two-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Basil Hood. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 29 November 1899, closing on 28...
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    enjoyed such international commercial success. In its English adaptation by Basil Hood, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, The Merry Widow became a sensation at Daly's...
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    Fan and Donna Luiza (with Basil Hood as librettist). Slaughter's breakthrough success came in 1895 in collaboration with Hood with the musical comedy Gentleman...
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    Edwardian musical theatre. Accessed February 25, 2011 Kenrick, John. Basil Hood, Who's Who in Musicals: Additional Bios XII, Musicals101.com, 2004, accessed...
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