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...payment of an alleged wager with Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel that his first born would be a boy, Borrah Minevitch, harmonica virtuoso, set out in his sloop from Nice to Africa "to hunt lions." When four days passed without sign of the boat Mrs. Minevitch set up an alarum. Three days later Musician Minevitch turned up at Bandol on the south coast of France with this story: As soon as they were out of sight of land his crew of four Corsicans, whom he had promised to pay $39 a day, lowered sail, made themselves comfortable, let the sloop...
...Cathedral of the Motion Picture Art," as Manhattan's $10,000,000 Roxy Theatre used to advertise itself, went into receivership last week. Claimed as chief reason for the theatre's present poverty was the fact that about a year ago Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel resigned to head Rockefeller Center's entertainment department. But cinamen know that spectacular Roxy's was unable to make satisfactory profits even when all its 6,000 seats were filled and when Roxy's 118-piece symphony orchestra was a feature...
...bright, bushy-haired conductor of the Omaha Symphony, went eagerly to meet Beatrice Belkin, seized her in a wholehearted embrace. Natives of Omaha who witnessed their salute were taken slightly aback but they knew that Conductor Littau had also been a protégé of Roxy (S. J. Rothafel), assumed that perhaps theatrefolk in the East acted that...
...charge of the Finkelstein and Ruben theatres for Paramount-Publix. Only Fox Theatres still being operated by the Fox Company are some "de luxe" houses and the Poli chain in New England. Stock-holders heard with alarm that famed Roxy Theatre must drop its name because Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel has gone to Radio City...
...known lately that opera of some description would be given there whether the Met came in or not. Leopold Stokowski announced that the Philadelphia Grand Opera would come over and give guest performances (TIME, Jan. 11). Chicago's Herbert Witherspoon conferred secretly with Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. Then there was a hint that the Chicago Civic Opera Company might also come on for occasional visits...