Word: rothafel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Metropolitan Opera and such radio shows as The Telephone Hour; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A practical-joking extravert who once had an ambulance deliver him to a party on a stretcher. Melton got his first job by bellowing melodically outside the locked office of Impresario Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, who unlocked the door, hired him on the spot. Almost as well known as his voice was his $250,000 collection of vintage autos, including a one-cylinder 1900 Packard and the 103rd Ford made, a 1903 model...
...Roxy was never able to top its premiere. Though every major Hollywood film star made love on its screen, though its stage shows ranged from dog acts to the New York Philharmonic, the theater usually had trouble paying its bills. In 1931 Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel, the free-spending impresario who had conceived the Roxy, jumped to the Radio City Music Hall just up the street, was soon presenting shows that out-glittered those at the theater named after him. Upkeep for the high-stepping chorus of Roxyettes, the huge orchestra and the three pipe organs was so high that...