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Show 10BIS HOOD" IS GUARANTEED ATTRACT! "Robin Hood" and his merrie men will hold forth at the Orpheum Monday, Mon-day, March Gth, when the de Koven Opera Company will present the all-star all-star grand opera revival of de Koven s most famous work, "Robin Hood" The present elaborate presentation of this little masterpiece is the most ambitious am-bitious effort yet made of a series of, revhals that are calculated to foster a taste for a form of art that is In the languishing slate. Originally produced twenty-three years ago, "Robin Hood" has enjoyed a career of remarkable prosperity It has been performed more than seven thousand times, and the melody of Its score and the wit of Its book will live to gie delight to genei'ations yet unborn. un-born. The prosent production will doubtless serve as a sharp reminder of the marked deterioration of the standard of light opera, and it- may serve as a good purpose In ellmlnat Ing the vacuous exhibitions of nonsensical non-sensical vulgarity that has taken the place and usurped the name and field of this genre of work "Robin Hood" has been given a worthy setting and the production is an artistic as well as an elaborate one. The market place of old Nottingham and the green shades of Sherwood Forest have been reproduced with fidelity and an attempt at-tempt has been made to preserve the atmosphere of old England in the days when Richard I was king. The costumes cos-tumes have been designed with care and are of the period. To properly cast "Robin Hood" Reginald de Koven drew on the resources of the grand opera houses of this country and Europe. Ivy Scott, a famous prima donna, with a rare lyric voice, was secured from the Metropolitan Opera, New York In the cast are Ralph Brainard, Jaines Stevens, Phil Branson, Cora Tracy, Wm Schuster, Tillie Salinger, 1 Herbert Waterous, Caiolyn Andrews, Sol Solomon and a superb chorus. on |