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...colossal monument to cinematic lavishness, is the Roxy Theatre in Manhattan. Showmen, long impotent in creating new superlatives, can murmur nothing except "titanic" when they think of the $10,000,000 that went into its erection. But few stockholders in Roxy Theatres Corp. are proud of their palatially gaudy enterprise. For, despite the fact that Fox soon bought control, Roxy A stock has declined from its offering price of $40 in 1925 to $22, has never been listed on any exchange. And Roxy performances, while resplendent with tinseled stage-shows, redundant with the harmony of a vast 80-piece orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rocky Roxy | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...chorines, whether because they were shy, or because they wanted publicity, or because they were not awarded jobs, raged at this requirement. They caused the New York Daily News to print their pictures with stories damning Earl Carroll, quoting George White, "Ziggy" and such showmen as being shocked by Earl Carroll's nude parade. The effort to start another Earl Carroll rumpus failed; District Attorney Joab H. Banton pointed out that even if the chorines were telling the truth, Earl Carroll had committed no crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Briefs | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...teams in the Stadium this fall, all have been unanimous in their praise of the bands which have beguiled the entr'actes. And noticeably has the Harvard band upheld the honours of the host. Those with an eye to color may have made more glowing mention of the Pennsylvania showmen, but satisfaction with a band which leaves little to be desired in execution has been sincerely felt by Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PILGRIM BAND | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

...awarded her an educational tour of the U. S. Last week she had crossed the continent from west to east. Manhattan newspaper reporters could think of but one thing to ask anyone called "Miss Australia": would she enter the current beauty contest at Atlantic City, where pursy bankers, showmen, hotel loungers and politicians sat in judgment upon the curves and proportions of "Miss Texas," "Miss Georgia," "Miss Idaho," etc., etc.? Beryl Mills did not like to disappoint her interviewers. And she thinks "all this talk about how vulgar you Americans are," is "silly." She thinks Americans are "perfectly adorable," especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Miss Australia | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...their entertainments, and they have put him out of them. Asked by a pupil where to take a play treating of the rougher seximpulses, Mr. Eaton is equipped to say, "Anywhere but to John Golden." He is aware of the predelictions, peccadilloes and policies of all the showmen from Mr. Belasce to Mishkin and Mindal, and his counsel would therefore be of much value in bringing Harvard closer to Broadway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

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