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Last week in Manhattan a homely, dumpy, indomitable old lady marched on the stage in S. L. ("Roxy") Rothafel's huge cinema theatre, grinned a wide grin, then sang in a voice which was still great "Danny Boy," Arditi's "Bolero" and Brahms' "Cradle Song." The old lady was 69 and a great-grandmother but she repeated her vaudeville turn four times a day on seven successive days with an added appearance on Saturday and Sunday. She was, of course, Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink who for four years past has been saying farewell to her public...
...unusual because instead of the customary five or ten, 500 came; unusual because instead of being complacent stockholders, they were armed with the spirit of "We want to know why!"; unusual because they practically declared a dividend without their directors' approval; unusual because President Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel, an exMarine, confessed in a long theme-song of woe that his stockholders have made him cry like a baby...
Titles: "Such a help," "The only one." "The man with a million friends." "The ace of announcers." S. L. ("Roxy") Rothafel calls him "A real pillar of radio...
Thus it is that august Britannica's list of contributors for the 14th Edition includes, besides Tunney, and besides the greatest scholars on scholarly subjects, such arresting names as Lon Chaney, Edward F. Albee, Alice Foote MacDougall; Henry Ford, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, Samuel R. ("Roxy") Rothafel, Lincoln Clark Andrews (U. S. Prohibition Chief, 1925-27), George Jean Nathan, Jesse L. Lasky, George Eastman, etc., etc., etc. (Contributors are discoverable in a list printed with the introduction. Articles are only initialed...
Carl Laemmle, Samuel L ("Roxy") Rothafel, Harry M. Warner, Adolph Zukor; Musicians Ernest Bloch, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Mischa Levitski, Nikolai Sokoloff; National Benefactors Julius Rosenwald, Aaron Sapiro...