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...hard hit financially that it could not even finish the present season, its directors so dissatisfied with the conservative, practical policies of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza that they were just waiting for the expiration of his contract (April 1935) to appoint some such character as Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel to take his job. That meant surely a company reorganized and moved to Radio City...
...unofficially announced last week, will be founded an institute for training in music and vaudeville. With "celebrated musicians" for teachers, it will provide instruction on free scholarships or at low tuition fees. Director will be Radio City's famed figurehead and master of ceremonies, Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. Last week Roxy pointed out that the nearby, dizzily rococo Roxy Theatre will have to change its name before Sept. 12, 1932, a month before the International Music Hall and a projected cinema palace are scheduled to open. Said he: "Plans for use of my name in the Radio City theatres...
Press agents named the grand scheme Radio City. Then came the question of a figurehead to attract public attention, as Alfred Emanuel Smith was figureheading the Empire State Building. It was announced last week that Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel would be inaugurated "Mayor" of Radio City on April...
...four accounts the name of Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel was featured in last week's news: He resigned as manager of the Roxy cinemansion in Manhattan "to enter a much wider field of activity." He was mentioned as probable general director of Radio City, big midtown amusement centre being developed by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Radio Corp. of America. He was awarded the first biennial medal of the Music Division of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs as "the person who has done most to advance the cause of music in the City...
Interested spectators during the week-long convention were dapper Bill Robinson, Negro, who at 52 wears rakishly the undisputed crown of king of all living tap-dancers; Ziegfeld's Harriet Hoctor, S. L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, famed Balletman Chester Hale, Dancers Patricia Bowman, Grace Dufay, Evelyn La Tour, Ramon & Rosita, Adelaide Hall...