Variety (Dec 1929)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
Dec 1929
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (December 1929)
Leaf #:
00015
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:
August 29, 2022
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10 VARIETY Wednesday, December 4, 1929 HERE'S WHAT MR. ANN HARDING^ first tolking picture. A tremeiHfous drqw qt the Paramount/N. Y. Studel>ak«r, Chicago; Fisher, Detroit; and other big key points. AccTairhtfd by reviewers and audiences as the finest work yet seen on the talking screen. INA CL AIIS^ in the role ond ploy in which she captured Broadway on the stage. Even .greater on the screein. Rated one of the most vohrable box oflice assets recruited from the stoge by talking pictures. HER PRIVATE AFFAIR ALAN >1ALE and SALLY EILERS feq- tured in a big day in q sailor's life ashore. Chockful of excitement and laughs. ''Gqgs well timed and the odion snappy/ says Film Daily. ANN HARDING*^ second superiatiVe production. One of , the most compelling pieces of dramatic choracterizotion that has come to the talking screen. Rated byThotoiplay of November as tone of the best six of the month. THE ALL-YEAR. 'ROUND SANTA CLAUS BELL RINGERS THAT WILL RING IN THE NEW ^WILLIAM BOVD'S first productioh this sea- son. As a U. S. Govalryman, Boyd has opportu- tnity fbron qdionfull, he-marf role with a comedy touchy There's a Spectacular color , and sound /jiequence that will give any audience a . thrill. ALL THE GLAMOR, pageantry and melody of the old-time minstrel show, plus a hitman story with o thrilling climax. A gripping backstage iramo with Helen Twelve'trees and Fred Scott. Vritten and produced by Edmund Goulding. EDMUND LOWE-CONSTANCE BENNEH, two great box office names, linked in a scintill- ating production based on the stage ploy by Edwin Burke that made dn outstanding hit on Broadway. With Zosu Pitts, Cormelito Geraghty and Stuart Erwin.