Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to ... See full summary »
The aria the barber is singing while shaving a customer is Largo al Factotum, Figaro's entrance aria from The Barber of Seville.
'Red' Nichols:
Mr. Paradise, I play New Orleans style. You know, it's the newest thing. As a matter of fact I got an arrangement right here of the very number that you're doing.
Wil Paradise:
Put that think away. Sit down.
'Red' Nichols:
Can't you take a little friendly advice?
Wil Paradise:
Put that horn in ...
During the song 'Lullaby in ragtime' Harry Guardino's cigarette slowly burns down but then, miraculously, becomes full length again.
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