Word: valete
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...Mary Livingstone is the original of Rhoda. Don Wilson, the pompous announcer, can be seen in Ted Knight's role on the Mary Tyler Moore show. The drunken bandleader, Phil Harris, is a 100-proof version of Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's sidekick. Rochester, the sardonic Negro valet, is the granddaddy of all the servants, black and white, who have hilariously put down their employers since the invention of the vacuum tube...
...Marriage of Figaro is a concert one, with no recitatives, few choruses, and singers standing up in tails. Much of the comedy inevitably gets lost. Beaumarchais's original version, first produced just five years before the French Revolution, was regarded as dangerously subversive because it concerned a valet's just victory over his adultery-minded master...
Somewhat reluctantly, Sampson revealed that no fewer than 21 people are now serving Nixon on their normal Government salaries, amounting to $450,000 a year. They include his personal maid and valet, as well as such well-paid aides as Ziegler ($42,500), Speechwriter Raymond K. Price Jr. ($40,000) and Secretary Rose Mary Woods ($36,000). In addition, all of the former Washington-based employees now assigned to Nixon draw $40 a day for meals and lodging. Sampson estimated that Secret Service protection of the ex-President will cost an additional $622,000 a year...
...Valet and maid of the Nixon family; Bebe Rebozo...
...fashionable then to hang paintings in a nobleman's elaborate salle de bain. This was a salon, often very elegantly furnished with rugs, tapestries and paintings, to which the nobleman's valet brought a tub of hot water...