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DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1932 They Were Interested ROXY HALL AWES 6,200 IN RADIO CITY OPENING WB By BURNS MANTLE. THERE is no describing this new Radio City Music Hall with superlatives. It is bijrger than that. It is, as a matter of fact, bigger than big. Handsomer than handsome.

It magnifies the magnificent. And if you want figures, the statistical department of Radio City will flood you with them. REDS DESERT CORTEGE TO BATTLE COPS The funeral of a homeless colored man, known only as Skippy Baritone, was the signal yesterday for a battle in which mounted police subdued 300 Communists on 39th St. between Eighth and Tenth Aves. Skippy, Red leaders said, was one of several derelicts ejected a week ago from an old slaughter house at 38th St.

and 12th Ave. He died a day later. Formed behind his hearse, which bore a placard, "He Died From Starvation," and a huge red flag, the Communist funeral procession got in motion at 1 P. M. When Patrolman Henry Krahn stopped them for obstructing traffic, some one threw a paper bag of ashes and a fight started.

Mounted reserves chased the Communists toward Union Square, wljere a girl led in speechmaking. No one was injured. A small delegation accompanied the hearse to Mount Olivet Cemetery, Queens. It is, as the program informs you, a dream of "Roxy" Rothafel tome true. It was conceived in the back TMm of a Pennsylvania nickelodeon, though Roxy did not know it if 'A AVy Jlr fi, Dr.

Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, and his daughter Sara at opening. Columbia owned the land that Rockefeller Center and the theatres are built on ACTOR OAKMAN WEDS Las Vegas, Dec. 27 (JP). husband of Priscilla Dean, onetime film star, and Frances I. Jones, 22, were married here to-day.

Oakman is a film actor. Wheeler V. Oakman, 42, former (Picture on page 1) PEN Wednesday Till 9 P. M. in ji iy tin ui ui it-jv uii i iixb uu ui- tay.

It was just born bigger. Last night, at the formal open ing, 6,200 people sloshed through the rain to get to the theatre at 50th St- and Sixth Ave. Entered on Velvet. Everything was ready for them inside. It is the completest opening job Roxy has ever directed.

The audience may have had a terrible time getting there, despite all Commissioner Hoyt could do for them in the way of clearing traffic. But the minute they arrived they were literally on velvet. At least the thick carpets that covered the sidewalk in front of the entrances felt like velvet. And the velvet got deeper and more luxurious as they pushed their shining shirt studs and ermine-collared wraps inside. There is nothing in all the world just like that Music Hall foyer.

(I beg pardon, it is not a foyer. It is a Grand Lounge. I just looked it up.) Eight stories high, with a grand staircase at one end and a shallow foyer balcony at the other, it is beautifully decorated by an Ezra Winter mural as 'expansive as a side of the park. From the lounge you tep into the auditorium proper. I suppose 5,000 of the 6,200 seats are on that first floor, which makes it seem just a little more than a half block deeper than the original Roxy.

Like Cosmic Tunnel. Here your first impression is that of looking into the first half IPINEAPPLE' 1POST BED, SPRING HATTRESS Titta IeWolf KutTo Hopper On Radio City Music Hall's first bill at the time. That was in 1907. It was Roxy who sold the idea Radio City, first to Merlin Aylesworth of RKO and, throuyh him, to John I. Rockefeller Jr.

Ami it was probably John D. Jr. who started John D. Sr. saving his dimes.

Koxy's Fourth 'Child. The music hall is the fourth child in a family that includes tho-e other Roxy ff-springs the Rialto, the Rivoli and the handsome gilt cathedral that will probably be known hereafter as the OM Roxy. It makes a joke of the slow processes of nature by being bigger than all its sisters by a thousand ton1 of steel and a couple thou- 'V- 'Sr Pieces May Be Purchased Seimrately I (Continued on page 31.) 1 Complete Ou.fi, I s. jm TFSY SPARKS LIGHT GREAT FIRES QXV often have you wished you "had tome Tnoncy in the bank?" If only you had -reserve fund on which you could draw vlMi an nnTT-tr? vittim iTaiti f. r-T 1 -t 6 VENEERED BED With carved Pineapple top Posts, and beautifully shaped head board.

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