Word: smugglers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the audience heard was an old-fashioned opera of love, misunderstanding and renunciation. Its six scenes, all laid in the Basque country, began in a murky smuggler's hideout, ended within the pale walls of a convent. The hero, a young smuggler and pelota champion (his name, Ramuntcho, is the Basque diminutive for Raymond) is separated from his Gracieuse by the army's call, then lost to her forever through the machinations of the girl's mother, who intercepts all their letters, thus driving the brokenhearted daughter into holy orders. When Ramuntcho returns and exposes...
...China an American dollar goes a long, long way. If the Fund succeeds in making the yuan respectable, Manuel Fox expects a quick lift in China's trade. As late as last year, Japan-for a smuggler's price-sold China most of her imported cloth goods. Smuggling had been choked off to a trickle last week. But with money to give it strength, it would revive again...
...hands singing Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here. Carmen is Billy's 18-year-old daughter Betty, who does a song and trucks to the jazzed-up Habanera while her mother pounds a little red piano. Captain Billy revised a scene in which Carmen consorts with smugglers in a cafe, made the chief smuggler a Greek restaurant proprietor, played by himself. Bullfighter Escamillo announces that he is "the greatest bull-thrower in all Spain," while Carmen begs him to "come to the Zoo opera to see my understudy." Climax is the bullfight scene (usually off-stage noises...