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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...
Died. Erno Rapee, 55, musical director of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, collaborator in the late Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel's campaign to put symphony orchestras into cinemansions, onetime musical director for Warner Brothers and NBC; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Ormandy, then a moderately gifted European concert violinist, arrived in Manhattan with a contract for a $30,000 concert tour, found that both the $30,000 and the impresario had vanished. Ormandy was down to his last nickel when he landed a job with the late Samuel L. (Roxy) Rothafel, who set him to fiddling in the last row of the second violin section at Broadway's Capitol Theater. Ormandy played second fiddle so well that he was soon solo violinist of the original Roxy Gang. He graduated from gangdom when the Capitol's chief conductor fell...
Short, dark Tenor Peerce's mother wanted him to study medicine, but he learned the fiddle, played and sang with Manhattan dance bands, was launched in the Music Hall by the late Samuel A. ("Roxy") Rothafel. When Peerce protested that he was too short and "funny looking" for the stage, Roxy replied: "You're the tallest man in the world! You're the handsomest man in the world! All you have to do is believe that...