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MOTION PICTURE DAILY, December 27, 1957
PRESENTING A SPECIAL SECTION MARKING THE ENDURING TRIUMPH OF A GREAT IDEA AND IDEAL IN ENTERTAINMENT *® ^
adio dy Music Hall's Glorious Quarter Century
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
By ERIC JOHNSTON
President of the MPAA
FROM the day that its doors opened, Radio City Music Hall has been an American institution. It is the mecca of the entertainment world. "It played The Hall." What a proud accolade for any picture!
Wherever I go around the world, people eagerly ask questions about the United States. And almost invariably one question is: "Won't you tell me about Radio City Music Hall? That's the first thing I'd like to see in America."
And when they say that, they are paying tribute not alone to a theatre of beauty and magnificence, but to the motion picture as well. For The Hall and good motion pictures are synonymous.
Scientists tell us that a world of fantastic wonders lies over the horizon. When we reach it, The Hall will still be then, as it is on this 25th Anniversary, a wonderful American institution.
ERIC JOHNSTON
VT/»THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the founding of Radio \j\ City Music Hall is an event of significance to the amusement in^dustry. From a standing start in the midst of the economic depression of the Early Thirties, this enterprise has developed into the world's pre-eminent theatrical institution. It has been a record of superlative accomplishment.
Initially conceived and sponsored by John D. Rockfeller, Jr., it has enjoyed over the years a skillful and buoyant administration through the efforts of a succession of distinguished executives.
First shepherding the Music Hall into a position of unique acceptance was the late W. G. Van Schmus. He was succeeded by G. S. Eyssell, now president of the mammoth Rockefeller Center, Inc., which includes the Music Hall. Next in the order of succession is the present chief executive of the Music Hall, Russell V. Downing.
To Mr. Downing and to his predecessors in the management of the Music Hall there is due much credit, because through their efforts and the efforts of the considerable personnel that comprises the staff, the institution not only has been most successful, but there has been wrought for it as well a distinct hallmark of character and dignity.
The Music Hall deservedly enjoys a vast popularity with residents of the metropolitan area and also with great numbers of people from across the nation and from across the world. For multitudes of New York visitors a sojourn in the city is incomplete without a visit to the Music Hall. It is well that this should be so because there is no like institution anywhere, —MARTIN QUIGLEY