Variety (Aug 1932)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
Aug 1932
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (August 1932)
Leaf #:
000216
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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Tuesday, August 30, 1932 VARIETY IS A NEW RECORD MAKER! Yes, even the "Bring 'Em Back AUvb" records..Ahe year's high spot for every, liouse«..give way to ''The BirdV tri- umphal sweep across America! Eight- een new weeic end openings give^ such remorlcabie figures as these: Cleveland's first two days exce«ds"Bring 'Em Back Alive" by $2512 . . . Toledo doubles its two opening days on Buck ... Columbus exceeds all opening figures by $1357... NewOrieons climbsonthe bond wagon with $2440 excess in three days.. • Kansas City tops all records by 33%... Akron'f first two days rang up a thousand more... Providence $1467... Rochester $1943, with Des Moines, Detroit, Hou- ston, San Antonio, Seattle, San Fran- cisco, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids and Blrmlneiiani equalling and exceeding the records in every housel KING VIDOR'S Glamorous Production from Richard Walton Tull/s World Sweeping Play with DOLORES DEL RIO JOEL M^C REA John Halliday, Creighton ChoneyT' Richard"Skeets" Gallagher, Bert*) Roach and a vast supporting cast RKO-RADIO PICTURE DAVID O. SEIZNICK Execu f f ve_ P rodweerj RKO-RADIO IS MAKING PICTURES THAT ARE MAKING MONEY !. -. 5'Brmg 'Em Back Alive," ''What Price Hollywood (RKO- Pathe)"TheAge.of Consent;' "Bird of Paradise;' "Hold tm jail"a/ic/co/n//igsoo/i Richard Dixin"Heirs Highway;"'! 3 Women/'"The Most Dangerous Game/'John Barrymore; in "A Bill of Divorcement/'Constance Bennett in "Rocka- bye^The Phantom of Crestwood"-'ALL MONEY PICTURESI