Variety (February 1909)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
February 1909
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (February 1909)
Leaf #:
000114
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
Sponsor:
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communication Arts
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:
August 29, 2022
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E VARIETY *3 p ». * V ■ i ■■ I wish to state that at the closing of the present season I will retire from Burlesque. I wish to thank the Managers and Performers, who have appeared with me, for their many kindnesses. My future plans will be announced later. FILMS Reloaeed February :d 9 190! "THE POLITICIAN'S LOVE STORY" A comedy subject with a moral, "Don't anticipate." A political "boss" has been vilely caricatured by a newspaper cartoonist, and goes to annihilate the author of them, but finding the artist a pretty girl, falls deeply in love with her. "THE GOLDEN LOUIS" A pathetic episode of the day of "Old Paris" when knights and gallant blades held forth. Con- trasting the scene of gayety there is seen a small child begging in the snow. She falls exhausted and sleeps. Some one drops a golden Louis into her little wooden shoe at her side, which coin is taken by a desperate gambler, who feels there is a chance of winning for her a fortune. He does, but upon his re- turn be finds her dead. FOLTTICIAE'i LOVE STOEY. Rel "AT THE ALTAR" The Interception off a Rejected Suitor's Vengeance The story is that of a Sicilian, who, rejected by the girl he loves, tries to wreak ven- geance by placing an infernal machine under the altar step on the day of her marriage to an Italian musician. It is placed in such a manner that the stepping forward of the officia- ting priest will spring the trap, killing the girl and her groom-elect. The plan, however, is intercepted in the nick of time. ' ^^ AT THS ALTAE. BKT . KA 1 M DATS OF BIOOEAPH SUBJECTS MONDAY AND THUS8DAT OF EACH WEEK. SET ON OUR MAIL LIST AMD KEEP POSTED WRITE FOR OUR DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS AMERICAN MUT0SC0PE"dBI0GRAPH COMPANY 11 E. 14th STREET, NEW YORK CITY 4 Wkm mmo9rim§ UvmrU —m im U Unity wumtion Vabhtt.