Word: escamillo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your review of the French-dialogued, made-in-Italy Carmen [TIME, Dec. 2] mentions "Escamillo's smugglers." Unless this particular movie scrambles Mérimée, Bizet and all traditional Carmens, you must be scrambling the Gypsy Girl's boy friends. "Garcia's smugglers" maybe, or even "Don Josè's smugglers," but surely Escamillo still sticks to his bull ring...
...while Baritone Duncan quietly practiced six operatic roles (Tonio in 7 Pagliacci, Escamillo in Carmen, Rigoletto, Germont in Traviata, the Ethiopian King in Aïda and Valentin in Faust). Last week his chance came-from New York's municipal, low-priced opera company, presided over by a self-conscious champion of race equality. Mayor F. H. LaGuardia. Todd Duncan made his debut in I Pagliacci, followed it two nights later with Carmen. Sympathetic audiences cheered him long. Critics were almost as loud in praise of his singing, hoped his acting would improve. Musically, LaGuardia's opera company...
...town where hip-swaying, head-tossing Carmen Jones works in a parachute factory. The Don José who wins her, loves her, loses her and kills her is a harassed M.P. corporal named Joe. The Micaela who loves and loses him is country-bred Cindy Lou. The triumphant bullfighter Escamillo, who steals Carmen from her soldier, is a towering prize fighter, Husky Miller...
...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), in which the bull, accompanied by the announcement: "Here comes Ferdinand," appears munching a carnation. Instead...