A 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...
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