Word: rothafel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Titles: "Such a help," "The only one." "The man with a million friends." "The ace of announcers." S. L. ("Roxy") Rothafel calls him "A real pillar of radio...
Thus it is that august Britannica's list of contributors for the 14th Edition includes, besides Tunney, and besides the greatest scholars on scholarly subjects, such arresting names as Lon Chaney, Edward F. Albee, Alice Foote MacDougall; Henry Ford, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, Samuel R. ("Roxy") Rothafel, Lincoln Clark Andrews (U. S. Prohibition Chief, 1925-27), George Jean Nathan, Jesse L. Lasky, George Eastman, etc., etc., etc. (Contributors are discoverable in a list printed with the introduction. Articles are only initialed...
Carl Laemmle, Samuel L ("Roxy") Rothafel, Harry M. Warner, Adolph Zukor; Musicians Ernest Bloch, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Mischa Levitski, Nikolai Sokoloff; National Benefactors Julius Rosenwald, Aaron Sapiro...
...white satin wrap with white furry collar, helped make the opening of the new Fox Cinema Theatre, largest in town, a gala affair by attending. Legislators and diplomats aplenty were in the house, but what most pleased President William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation and impressario Samuel Lionel Rothafel was the President's demonstrative enjoyment of third program, especially a revival of the Glow Worm number from Composer Paul Lincke's ballet Lysisprata...
...contractors followed the blueprints of the Roxy Midway Theatre last week abuilding in Manhattan; other architects, contractors figured the blueprints of the Roxy Mansion for uptown New York. Each theatre will seat 4,000 people, will exhibit the melee of cinema, music and divertissement by which Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel has made his larger (6,200-seat) Roxy Theatre prosper...