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...white satin wrap with white furry collar, helped make the opening of the new Fox Cinema Theatre, largest in town, a gala affair by attending. Legislators and diplomats aplenty were in the house, but what most pleased President William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation and impressario Samuel Lionel Rothafel was the President's demonstrative enjoyment of third program, especially a revival of the Glow Worm number from Composer Paul Lincke's ballet Lysisprata...
...contractors followed the blueprints of the Roxy Midway Theatre last week abuilding in Manhattan; other architects, contractors figured the blueprints of the Roxy Mansion for uptown New York. Each theatre will seat 4,000 people, will exhibit the melee of cinema, music and divertissement by which Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel has made his larger (6,200-seat) Roxy Theatre prosper...
Roxy-Fox. William Fox (Fox Film Corp. and the owner of 30 cinema theatres) last week bought Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel's new Roxy Theatre, largest cinema house in the world (6,200 seats) and eleven more "Roxy" theatres now abuilding, for $15,000,000. Twenty years ago William Fox began business with the smallest theatre in Manhattan (146 seats). One Herbert Lubin is "Roxy's" money backer...
...Love of Sunya (Gloria Swanson). Samuel L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, bequeather of radio outfits to disabled veterans and radio music to the U. S., invited Manhattan celebrities to the opening of his new "cathedral of motion picture," world's largest theatre. They came-the Mayor, actors, chorines, bankers, merchants, lawyers. They beheld a vast, bronzed, Spanish Renaissance structure imposing its Moorish splendor upon the corner of Seventh Ave. and 50th St., in the backyard neighborhood of Broadway, otherwise asprawl with garages, night clubs, hotdog stands, pawn-jewelers. Inside it was golden-brown, well ventilated, pagan-like in its florid adornment...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge went one evening to the Washington auditorium to hear "Roxy and his gang" (S. L. Rothafel and assistants), famed radio announcers. The next day, Roxy and his gang paid a call at the White House...