Variety (May 1909)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
May 1909
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (May 1909)
Leaf #:
000158
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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VARIETY 39 IF YOU ADVERTISE Advertise in WOnr Variety Takes You Everywhere. Reaches Every Class. It is read by Artists, Agents and Managers for the in- formation it contains That is the cause of its wide circulation. ADVERTISING IS INFORMATION Everybody who buys Variety reads it all through. It's read because it has All the News All the Time • 'That Green Paper" mmf (You Know It by the Color) PLACE YOUR ADVERTISEMENT in a paper read by the people want to read it, and by those you know. you fj <*M JOHNNY BUSCH TRIO Comedy Talking Act Mr. Harry Leonhardt said: "Go as far as you like, I think your act is the greatest in vaude- ville." HAVE SOME OPEN TIME JOHNNY BUSCH, JR. Seven-ye&r-old Comedian. REICH & PLUNKETT Agents Do You Want a New Act ? I am at liberty for a few weeks to write for competent people only. If you have a peculiar personality I can fit you. If you want something original that will bring you steady time, I can write it for you. Do you know that I wrote the best comedy-novelty sketch of the season? If you have not seen it you have heard of it— "THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER f I pronounced by press and public to be the most original idea presented to vaudeville in years. VARIETY Raid: "To Mr. Ilymer must go the credit for giving vaudeville the best comedy novelty sketch it ban wen In many a day." "The Morning Telegraph" said: "It wan the mirth producer of the programme. The offer- ing la entirely away and different from all uketchea ho far aeen at the vaudeville houaca." mJLNCU/CD BOOKED SOLID 40 WEEKS-NEXT SEASON, AHOTltn 0PEN1NQ AUQ. 16. f f I also wrote "TONY AND THE STORK Now being presented by MAURICE FREEMAN AND CO. These bits from Newark: "Once In a while there la produced In vaudeville a playlet or ■ketch whose ORIGINALITY In conception and TREATMENT OP THEME leaves auch a atrong impression that the production flxea Itself In one'a memory. Such a sketch la John B. Ilymer'a •TONY AND THE STORK,' which la delighting audlencea at IToetor's Theatre this week." "In 'Tony and the Stork.' which Introduce* Maurice Freeman at Proctor's Theatre this week, John B. Hymer has produced one of the moat interesting playlets that have been aeen at a local theatre during the present season." In preparation: "TEN, TWENTY AND THIRTY If If you want an original sketch, monologue, song or parody, call, telephone or write Zola Court, 52 Cathedral Parkway, New York (Tel. 5K30 Riverside) JOHN B. HYMER. When answering advertisement* kindly mention Vajottt.