Word: rothafel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roxy-Fox. William Fox (Fox Film Corp. and the owner of 30 cinema theatres) last week bought Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel's new Roxy Theatre, largest cinema house in the world (6,200 seats) and eleven more "Roxy" theatres now abuilding, for $15,000,000. Twenty years ago William Fox began business with the smallest theatre in Manhattan (146 seats). One Herbert Lubin is "Roxy's" money backer...
...Love of Sunya (Gloria Swanson). Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, bequeather of radio outfits to disabled veterans and radio music to the U. S., invited Manhattan celebrities to the opening of his new "cathedral of motion picture," world's largest theatre. They came-the Mayor, actors, chorines, bankers, merchants, lawyers. They beheld a vast, bronzed, Spanish Renaissance structure imposing its Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St., in the backyard neighborhood of Broadway, otherwise asprawl with garages, night clubs, hotdog stands, pawn-jewelers. Inside it was golden-brown, well ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge went one evening to the Washington auditorium to hear "Roxy and his gang" (S. L. Rothafel and assistants), famed radio announcers. The next day, Roxy and his gang paid a call at the White House...