OBITUARY
CAPTAIN BASIL HOOD, DRAMATIST, (liec. August S, 6.20 p.m.) London, August 7. Obituary—Captain Basil Hood, dramatist "The late Captain Hood was found dead in bed—Aus.-N.Z'. Cable [Captain Basil Hood, who was 53 years of a«e was a well-known writer tor tho stag!. His works, all o a light attractive comedy character, came in for a good deal of attention twenty years a-o He attended Wellington Col ege (En-land) as a vouth, and graduating itStat entered the Yorkshire ■Resiment in 1883, and ten years later obtained s company. When his regiment ™dered. to* Burma hie I*W» ent for the stage had so asserted itselt r at he sent in hie papers and retired In liiU-MT He WTote tho libretto ot Vrthur Sullivan, and"Merrie England"
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3158, 9 August 1917, Page 5
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124OBITUARY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3158, 9 August 1917, Page 5
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