If You Wanted to See a Movie, You Had to Go Down the Street

Radio City Music Hall didn’t show movies when it first opened (“The Way We Watched,” by Susan King, Special Millennium Issue/Hollywood, Nov. 7). It was a pure variety house. And the Rockettes were known then as the “Roxyettes.” Forty-eight of them shared the bill with the Music Hall’s famous Corps d’Ballet and popular touring vaudeville headliners.

If you wanted to see a movie, you had to go down the street to the Roxy, where another 32 Roxyettes were part of impresario S.L. “Roxy” Rothafel’s acclaimed prelude show.

Thomas D. Bratter

Los Angeles