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...lettuce from Dalat and lobsters from Nha Trang are all bound to run out before long. Many dance halls and teahouses have been closed, and the curfew has been moved back to 9 p.m. so that diners in the fine old French restaurants such as Aterbea and Auberge Ramuntcho must wolf down their meals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indo-china: SAIGON UNDER SIEGE | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...introductions to other people's books; he is a composer to boot. Last week Americans were pricked into awareness of that half-forgotten fact when the enterprising Philadelphia Opera Company (TIME, Feb. 9) put on the world premiere of the first new Deems Taylor opera in eleven years, Ramuntcho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grand Operetta | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grand Operetta | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Boston will probably hear Ramuntcho next winter. Meanwhile Composer Taylor plans to write a fourth opera for the Philadelphia troupe's U.S. tour next season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grand Operetta | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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