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Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel: The entertainment business needs good taste and a finer personnel. The showman doesn't know and the public doesn't know what the public wants. My idea is to be creative and present new things...
Among the people to speak will be Roy Chapman Andrews, the noted explorer, S. L. Rothafel who is known as Roxy. Amelia Earhart, and Colby M. Chester, president of the General Foods Corporation. All Harvard students interested in attending the conference can get tickets at the offices of the Consultant of Careers...
...trustee of Manhattan's Metropolitan and Modern Art museums, one of his first family duties was to blot off the walls of Rockefeller Center the Communistic murals of Artist Diego Rivera. He doled out prizes to Rockefeller Center workmen. He was tutored in showmanship by Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel. He grappled the problem of populating his father's vast acres of office space with rent-paying tenants. And as an unofficial renting agent, he seemed to be an indisputable success...
...Rothafel, famed impresario; as manager of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall; on Feb. 14. Reported reason: budget difficulties. Said Roxy: "I had a definite idealism and I couldn't go back...
...city's pressmen, publishers and advertisers had a band led by a dancing Indian in a war bonnet (see p. 50 ). Walter Damrosch was with the radio people; little old Charles Winninger led the actors. Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel's costumed choristers from Radio City cut capers on the asphalt. Paramount had four imitation Marx Brothers and six Mae Wests. Some Army signalers paused in front of the reviewing stand to fly 50 pigeons back to Washington with greetings to the President. The Stock Exchange crowd had a band of Scotch pipers. The Cotton Exchange people had a band...