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Graae’s major-domo Max seeks to mollify the Nazis who control who gets sent on to the death camps.

As for the Rangers, the boxing promoter and major-domo of Madison Square Garden back in the 1920s was a fellow named Tex Rickard.

So a man called Bellamy — or is it his doppelgänger, Bollany? — accompanies Swan on the piano and serves as his awkward, temporizing major-domo.

The atmosphere in the packed theater Sunday night had a comedy-club vibe, aided by the energy and charm of Veneziale, the smooth operator who both raps and serves as a kind of major-domo.

With five minutes before takeoff, the captain came to usher me to the plane, where I was met by Robbins’s aeronautic major-domo, Ariane, a tall, well-seasoned flight attendant in a gray business-suit uniform.