Variety (Dec 1933)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
Dec 1933
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (December 1933)
Leaf #:
000215
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",Vaudeville,Theatr
Collection:
Theatre and Vaudeville, Hollywood Studio System, and Early Cinema
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library, Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Founded in 1905 by Sime Silverman, Variety is the best known and most important trade paper in the history of American entertainment. Variety began as a New York weekly publication covering vaudeville, however, its scope expanded over time to include legitimate theatre, burlesque, motion pictures, radio, and television (transitions that the MHDL will eventually document within this record). In 1933, Daily Variety was launched in Los Angeles to offer in-depth coverage of the motion picture industry and serve as a competitor to The Hollywood Reporter, which was founded 'on the Coast' in 1930. In March 2013, Variety's owner ended the print edition of Daily Variety, though as of this writing, the weekly publication and a website offering non-stop news updates still exist. Variety may ultimately be best remembered for its integration of show business slang into entertainment trade coverage. Boffo. Hokum. Quickies. Svelte. Climaxer. Tenpercenter. Coastlander. Skein. We're still feeling zowied. -- Eric Hoyt, 2013
Date Added:
May 09, 2024
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24 VARIETY Tuesday, December 26, 1933 HAPPY 1934! 1 What a pleasure to know that you can count on LEO for HIT after HIT, WEEK after WEEK, YEAR after YEAR! What this Week Means for the Weeks to Come Greta Garbo at Astor ^^Q^eeIl Chnstina^^ starts a $2 top two- a-day run at the world's leading roadshow house* The notices are 100% praise. The advance sale at the theatre is unprecedented. It is no exaggeration to say that this is THE BIGGEST ATTRACTION IlSf SHOW BUSINESS 2: Marion Davies—Bing Crosby ^*Going HollyWOdd*'^ People are com- mentingbreathlessly on this great musical Fast, ^1 luxurious and with the greatest musical score since ^^The Broadway Melody/' Hit! Hit! Hit! ^ I ^^Dancing Lady^' Ooan CrawfordyClarkGahle, FranchotTone) continues its amazing business — getting career as the best musical yet released. Hit! Hit! Hit! 4: Laurel and Hardy in ^^SonS of the Desert^^ arrives. This is tops for comedy. It raises Laurel and Hardy to full feature length stature as guaranteed stars. This is a Hit! Hit! Hit! 5s Big plans completed for popular price engagements of "Dinner at Eight'' and Also campaigns started ori imo. "The CAT and the FIDDLE"" (Ramon t^ovarro and Jemette MacDonaU); "IT HAPPENED ONE DAY" (Lionel Barrymore); "LAUGHING BOY'; (Ramon Novarro and LupeVelez) ; "THE MYSTERYOF THE DEAD POLICE'J (Robert "Montgomery); "RIP TIDE" (Norma Shearer); "TARZAN and HIS MATE" (Johnny Weissmulkr and "Maureen O'Sullivan); "VIVA VILLA** (Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo CdriUo) I METRO-Qoldiuyn-MAYER lO* Championship Year I THt WEEKS TO COME MEAN HITS! HITS! HITS! from Metro-Gofdivyn-Mayer