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...York University, now in its first year; 3) Columbia's new studies in "History, Aesthetic and Technique of the Motion Pictures." Most searching of these was Columbia's, listed in the University catalog as "Fine Arts em1-em2," conducted by Film Librarians Abbott & Barry with Paul Rotha, British documentarian, and invited technicians. Also most compact, it started off last week with 38 selected students...
Died. Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rotha-felf 53, Manhattan showman who, starting as a nickelodeon operator 28 years ago, introduced superspectacle stage shows to U. S. cinema theatres, carried cinemansion magnificence to fabulous Byzantine heights in his own theatre, The Roxy; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1934 he lost his job as manager of Rockefeller Center's theatres...