May 3, 2012
The Birth of Radio City Music Hall and the Figurative Death of Roxy's Career
“Unfortunately for Roxy … Radio City’s opening night on December 27, 1932, was a critical disaster.” The excerpt from Ross Melnick’s American Showman: Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935 in yesterday’s post looked at Rothafel’s...