Station R-O-X-Y: Roxy and the radio

Film History: An International Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 217-233

  Melnick, Ross ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 61149669534     PISSN: 08922160     EISSN: 15533905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/fih.2005.0026     Document Type: Article

References (97)

1. 'Roxy and 'Gang' Appear In Boston', Boston Herald (22 April 1925).
2. 'Rethinking Rothafel', The Moving Image (Fall 2003): 62-95.
3. Michele Hilmes, Radio Voices: American Broadcast-ing, 1922-1952 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997);
4. Hilmes, Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990);
5. Thomas Doherty, 'Return With Us Now To Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear: Radio Studies Rise Again', The Chronicle of Higher Education (21 May 2004): B12.
6. The Messenger (Stillwater, MN, 17 May 1890
7. James McQuade, 'Chicago Letter', Moving Picture World (31 May 1913): 906.
8. The Music That Is In Every Man', The Etude (Philadelphia, December 1927): 903.
9. Quoted in David Robinson, From Peep Show to Palace (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 149.
10. W.R. Wilkerson, 'Tradeviews', The Hollywood Reporter (14 January 1936): 1.
11. J. Fred MacDonald, Don't Touch That Dial! (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1979), 19;
12. 'Radio', New York Times (19 November 1922);
13. Donna L. Halper, Invisible Stars (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2001), 15.
14. '20 Years on the Radio', Newsweek (24 August 1942): 67.
15. William Peck Banning, Commercial Broadcasting Pioneer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1946), 113-114.
16. Daniel Okrent, Greaf Fortune (New York: Viking, 2003), 208.
17. 'Capitol Tokens Are Ready Now', Evening Mail (26 May 1923).
18. 'Likes Broadcasting', Moving Picture World (16 February 1924).
19. Gladys Hall, 'He Makes the World at Home', Classic (August 1923): 25.
20. 'Here's 'Roxey' [sic] and The Gang", Evening Worid's Radio Section, (9 June 1923).
21. Advertisement, New York Times (2 April 1924).
22. Daily Times (10 June 1923), unidentified clipping, NYPL (MFL+ n.c. 1526).
23. Evelyn Lanzius, 'Roxie, Lil, Bert and Louis of WEAF', Radio Digest (2 June 1923): 5.
24. 'Card To "Roxy" Finds Its Owner', New York American (27 January 1924).
25. 'Strand Radio Shows', Variety (16 June 1923).
26. Bosley Crowther, The Lion's Share (New York: Dutton, 1957), 129.
27. Donald Crafton, The Talkies (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997), 42.
28. "Roxy' and 'His Gang' Will Attend First Annual Radio Show', Washington Post (24 February 1924).
29. 'Capitol's Radio Outfit Will Tour', Times Square Daily (ca. 8 March 1924
30. 'When Roxy Rothafel and His Gang Went Roaming', Morning Telegraph (25 May 1924).
31. James C. Young, 'Broadcasting Personality', Radio Broadcast (July 1924, 249).
32. Hilmes, Radio Voices, 62-63;
33. Roger Batchelder, '"Roxy" And The "Gang" To Return Uncensored To Air Tonight.', Boston Sunday Globe (8 February 1925).
34. 'Ministers In Sympathy With Roxy's Jollity', Worcester Evening Gazette (4 February 1925) ;
35. 'Give "Roxy" His Freedom!', Providence News (3 February 1925).
36. Robert T. Small, 'WEAF Narrowly Escapes Probe For Attempt To Curb "Roxie"', Evening Star (Washington, DC, 6 February 1925).
37. 'Radio Announcers Name 'Roxy' Head', Providence Journal (3 March 1925);
38. 'Roxy, of Radio Fame, Joins the Traveler Staff as Columnist', Boston Traveler (20 March 1925).
39. 'Radio First in Roxy's Heart', Radio World (18 April 1925).
40. 'What of the Radio', Exhibitor's Trade Review (22 March 1924), clipping, MCNY.
41. Hilmes, Hollywood and Broadcasting, 36.
42. 'Latest News From The Radio Studios', New York Times (31 May 1925);
43. Scott Eyman, The Speed of Sound (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), 67.
44. WBPI was located at the same venue where The Jazz Singer would open the following year, further merging the developing technologies of radio broadcasting and sound reproduction; Hilmes, Hollywood and Broadcasting, 35.
45. 'Two Wise Men of Gotham Who Came Out of the West', New York Herald Tribune (15 June 1924).
46. Lucille Husting, 'Hello, Everybody!', Radio News (December 1927): 604.
47. 'A Perfect Personnel at Your Service', Roxy: A History (New York: The Film Dairy, 1927), [n.p.].
48. "Roxy' Insured For $2,000,000', Boston Evening Globe (12 December 1925).
49. "Roxy and His Gang', Return to the Microphone Tomorrow Night Over Nine Stations', New York Times (6 March 1927);
50. 'Capitol and Roxy Sew Up WEAF and WJZ', Variety (6 March 1927).
51. Merrill Crawford, 'Broadcasting War Looms to Offset Roxy's Competition', Moving Picture World (19 March 1927): 1.
52. 'Late Chicago News', Moving Picture World (19 March 1927): 1.
53. Quoted in Samuel Rothafel, 'Hello Everybody!', Roxy Theatre Weekly Review (14 April 1928): 3.
54. Glendon Allvine, The Greatest Fox of Them All (New York: Lyle Stuart, 1969), 114-115.
55. Allene Talmey, Doug and Mary and Others (New York: Macy-Masius, 1927), 181.
56. 'Behind The Screens', New York World (ca. 27 March 1927), clipping, MCNY.
57. 'Roxy Theatre Added to Fox Chain', Motion Picture News (8 April 1927): 1254.
58. 'Radio and Showmanship', Motion Picture News (3 June 1927): 2177.
59. 'Brilliant Audience Attends Opening of New Fox Theatre', Exhibitor's Herald (1 October 1927): 29;
60. Robert K. Headley, Motion Picture Exhibition in Washington, D.C. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999), 265.
61. Advertisement, The Bioscope (5 December 1928).
62. Advertisement, Los Angeles Times (10 May 1927).
63. Jack Banner, 'Roxy', Radio Guide (29 September 1934): 7.
64. S.L. Rothafel, The Music That Is In Every Man', The Etude (December 1927): 904.
65. S.L. Rothafel ('Roxy'), Ten Million Listeners Guide the Gang', Roxy Theatre Weekly Review (6 October 1928): 3;
66. 'A Theatre Anniversary', Wall Street Journal (9 March 1928).
67. Rothafel, 'Ten Million Listeners Guide the Gang', 3.
68. Mary Jordan, 'Radio Has Made 'High-Brow' Music Popular', Radio News (February 1928): 884.
69. Ralph L. Power, 'KFWB Studio To Give Revue', Los Angeles Times (28 July 1928).
70. 'Film Company Linked With Columbia Radio', New York Times (15 June 1929
71. 'Radio Station Open To Publix', Publix Opinion (27 December 1929): 7. Today, Paramount and CBS are together again, thanks to another former exhibitor, Sumner Redstone.
72. 'Erno Rapee to Leave Roxy's', New York Times (2 January 1930).
73. Orbin E. Dunlap, Jr. 'Foresighted Leaders Plan For Radio Vision', New York Times (23 February 1930).
74. 'Screen Notes', New York Times (29 October 1931).
75. Samuel Kaufman, 'Backstage in Broadcasting', Radio News (May 1931): 1006.
76. 'Wire Briefs', Newark Advocate and American Tribune (7 October, 1931).
77. 'Broadcast From Radio City Is Listed On NBC', Mansfield News (Mansfield, OH, 11 November 1932
78. 'First Broadcast From Radio City', New York Times (14 November 1932).
79. Brooks Atkinson, Broadway (New York: Macmillan, 1970), 183.
80. 'Radio Programs', Mansfield News-Journal (5 May 1933).
81. 'Roxy Rothafel Goes To Florida For Rest', Los Angeles Times (8 January 1934);
82. E. Butterfield, 'Radio Day By Day', Frederick Post (Frederick, MD, 11 January 1934).
83. 'Says Roxy Sought British Air Control', New York Times (18 March 1934);
84. 'Foreign News On A Thumbnail', Oshkosh Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wl, 14 March 1931
85. '"Roxy" Theatre For London', Bioscope (1 December 1927): 37;
86. C. E. Butterfield, 'Radio Day By Day', Frederick Post (Frederick, MD, 17 July 1934);
87. 'Up Goes The Curtain', New York Times (2 September 1934).
88. 'Roxy: Auditions Are Held for Radio Come-Back This Fall', News-Week (28 July 1934): 22.
89. Advertisement, Philadelphia Inquirer (23 December 1934).
90. 'Roxy's Gang', Philadelphia Inquirer (6 January 1935).
91. 'Radio Bills Turf Event', Los Angeles Times (23 February 1935);
92. 'Roxy Project To Close', New York Times (24 February 1935
93. 'Roxy Reorganizing Declared Nearer', Motion Picture Herald (15 February 1936): 21.
94. "Roxy' Dies In Sleep', Daily Mirror (14 January 1936);
95. 'Roxy Dies On Eve of Big Comeback', New York American (14 January 1936);
96. 'The Passing of 'Roxy", American Hebrew (17 January 1936).
97. Aaron Stein, 'Roxy Leaves His Mark On Radio's Broadcasting Style', New York Post (14 January 1936).