Variety (May 1909)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
May 1909
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (May 1909)
Leaf #:
00033
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",Vaudeville,Theatr
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Early Cinema, and Theatre and Vaudeville
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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34 VARIETY REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS FRED KARNO'S Comedians • in: Nigh? in aa English Masic Hall Night ii Slims of Lorion" t» llu! Mgr. ALF. REEVES. WILLA HOLT WAKEFIELD •0*0 UAnnrea. WILLIAM I011II OIROVIT. Lillian Hale- d Co Pro s en ttog •• THI PHANTOM 3AGIR DIAI RIVAL," Written by II LISTENll CHARLOTTE TOWNSEND OUMSAL ALBEIT IUTHCRLAND, M*s*»tfe>r NEWELL NIBLO homo after two snoeessfnl years in Europe. oPKimro nr hew yowl SILBONS CATS btoopzah hovxlty ahtmal act. Now Playing Orphean* Clrcnlt H. B. MARINELLI, Agent ORIGINAL CLIPPER COMEDY QUARTET Playing the feUowlaff time: MILWAUKEE, LOUISVILLE, HEW ORLEANS (I weeks), ST. LOT/IB, MEMPHIS, DES MOINES. MAJESTIC, CHICAGO. BELL and RICHARDS KHENE-Y'8.—Ben and Richards, In their comedy musical set, msde one of the bluett hits of sny- thlnf erer given lp the TsnderlUe line In New Drltaln. Ct. BHEKDY*8, Brockton, Mass.—Bell sod Btchsrds here s comedy set which hss a laugh a minute, besides some yery clever plsylog on s number of Instruments. DORP, Schenectsdy, N. Y.—Again lstt night Bell end Rlchsrds charmingly entertained audiences thst filled every eest st the Dorp. The musical set of these clever artists Is surely s novelty, one of the festures Is s big Amerlcsn flag, which, ss the different bells sre rung, Is brought out In the different colored electric lights, snd when, at tbe completion of the selection s beautiful Amerlcsn esgle over the flag is lighted up, tbe effect Is dsssllng. This Is tbe only set of the kind In tbe world snd Manager Oalalse hss received many requests to keep the act another week. AL IVI 1^1 BIG BEAUTY SHOW" Next year's production positively 50 PEOPLE. EVERYTHING NSW. First part, burlesque, electrical effects, scenery, costumes and all new original songs and music, including my big sensational entrance number, "YOU'LL HAVE TO TAKE YOUR HATS OFF." GIVE ME CREDIT, BOYS. l¥T A ^hvT^B^BA "M^ A big, strong novelty sketch that makes them laugh; also a strong singing and dancing act in "one"; new faces preferred. Can W/\ll IL*J J 1 also use a few good-looking chorus girU and chorus boys who can sing and dapce. FORTY SOLID WEEKS; no "lay-offs." w w * ^^ ^ m fcor*^- • Address, Hay 3, Corinthian Theatre, Rochester; May xo, Gayety Theatre, Toronto. PERMANENT ADDRESS, CARE ELKS' CLUB. BROOKLYN, N. Y. ' ical Cates 4 America's lost Meritorious Musical Act IN FRANK D. CATC, Cornel Virtuoso WALTER M. CATC* World's Greatest Saxophone Soloist, and Playing Correctly the) Enliro F. Llail'e "Second Hungarian Rhapsody," " Semirasside Overture," Etc., Etc., Etc., on Iho Xylophones. BEST Cornet Soloist BEST Saxophone Soloist BEST Saxophone Quartette BEST Xylophone Team Address care VARIE1Y. M ANIMAL CIRCUS Not since the American Theatre, New York, has gone Into vaudeville has there been such a success as this act. It Is one of vaudeville's sur- prises when ladles and gentlemen stand up In the audience and cheer the comedy values of this act. WEEK APRIL 20, FULTON, BROOKLYN LOUIS E.. MILLER £S. D BOOKED SOLID TO 1910. BOB RICHMOND la his new monologue upon Onrreat Topics. Address 174 Oeatral Park West. Hew York. Ho trespassiag At Hickory Grossing BRO ■ Introdaeiag the doable somersault la mid-sir on bioyoles. The SENSATIONAL HIT of the ORPHEUM CIRCUIT PROCLAIMED BY ALL AS "OOPTDr DODGEBS." Dodging the ooSLn this week (April 16) st Hippodrome, Cleveland. Hay 1—Mary Anderson, Louisville. Exolusive Booking, PAT CASEY AL. RAYNO'S FAMOUS BULL BOGS Introducing Footbsll Dogs and Gambler, the greatest of all Flip Flap Dogs, st Keith's, Providence, week Hay 3. Whm tniwerimg tiv m t Ui m mU kimfy mention Vabtjbty.