Word: factotums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Soloist Robert Merrill singing Rossini's aria Largo al Factotum, and Whiffenpoof Song...
...Victor Show (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Baritone Robert Merrill, in popular and classical music, including Rossini's Largo Al Factotum from the Barber of Seville...
Jascha Heifetz: Violin Solos (Decca, 8 sides). The top classical artist to stray from Victor or Columbia, during the 14 months when Decca had made its peace with Petrillo and the big two had not. So far, Heifetz has played such banalities as White Christmas and Largo al Factotum for Decca. Now, in his first Decca album, Heifetz puts his cool gloss on bits & pieces from Ravel, Debussy, Godowsky and others. Performance: good...
Donald's career as a powerful oriental factotum began with Sun Yatsen. After his successful revolution had overthrown China's 300-year-old Manchu dynasty in 1911, Dr. Sun needed someone to communicate his ideas, help work out his plans. Donald became his adviser. A newspaperman, he had arrived in China in 1902, via Sydney's Daily Telegraph, to go to work for Hong Kong's China Mail. He was Shanghai correspondent for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald when Dr. Sun heard about him. Donald, profoundly moved by the revolution...
This scene is the climax of Sinatra's screen debut. Up to this point the debut is markedly tactful. Sinatra is surrounded by such seasoned entertainers as Leon Errol and Jack Haley. The story is carefully simpleminded. Errol appears as a piano manufacturer on the financial skids. His factotum, Jack Haley, hits on the idea of building his scullery maid (Michele Morgan) into the season's glamor girl. Sinatra, playing a character named Frank Sinatra, is simply a shy young fellow next door who has struck up a songful flirtation with the slavey...