Word: rothafel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brass monkeys indoors tonight," so smoothly that the Hays organization allowed the line to stay. William Gargan is Collier's ex-pugilist butler. Funniest scene is when Gargan, drunk, tries to get up courage to resign while Collier tries to get up courage to discharge him. Mr. Rothafel selected The Animal Kingdom as the first attraction at the RKO Roxy theatre, which opened its doors in Rockefeller Center last week two days after the monster Radio City Music Hall (TIME...
...grey pylon which strikes the earth where Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Elevated fences off 50th and 51st Streets -the Radio City Music Hall of Rockefeller Center. Wags had already dubbed the locale of the new theatre, whose 6,200 seats make it the world's largest, the "Rothafeller" Center, for celebrated Showman Samuel Lionel O'Roxy") Rothafel was to produce this week-and as many weeks thereafter as he could make the $85,000 "nut" (overhead)-a monster variety bill twice daily...
...film of fire horses answering an alarm. In 1905, in Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario of the epochmaking 18-piece orchestra was Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. In 1926 Moe Mark sold some of his chain of cinema theatres to Stanley Co. of America which merged (1928) with Warner Brothers; in 1929 he sold the rest to Warner...
...payment of an alleged wager with Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel that his first born would be a boy, Borrah Minevitch, harmonica virtuoso, set out in his sloop from Nice to Africa "to hunt lions." When four days passed without sign of the boat Mrs. Minevitch set up an alarum. Three days later Musician Minevitch turned up at Bandol on the south coast of France with this story: As soon as they were out of sight of land his crew of four Corsicans, whom he had promised to pay $39 a day, lowered sail, made themselves comfortable, let the sloop...
First an architect in California, then a painter in Chicago, then an interior decorator in Manhattan, Decorator Deskey is credited with the introduction of tubular metal furniture to the U. S. He promised "sane modern design" for International Music Hall, to be used for vaudeville under Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel's direction.* Already a score of artists were planning details...