Variety (Jan 1942)

Page scan 0005 from Variety

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
Jan 1942
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (January 1942)
Leaf #:
0005
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",Vaudeville,Theatr
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Theatre and Vaudeville, 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
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

6 PICTURES Thirty-aixlh P^KlM^r Anniversary Janpary 7, 1942 Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc 28 Wfst 44th Street New York City "■"V.'oc.T December 15, 1941 CARL r. MILLIKEN HcmTAiiv erpicc of thi raniDiNT The Editor, VARIEK, 154 West 46th Street, New York, N. Y. Dear Sir: VARIETY deserves the warmest commendation of all who would preserve unimpaired, untrammeled, unsullied what you so brilliantly term "The Fifth Freedom - the freedom of self-expression In artistic terms". This is a never-ending fight. It does not. permit of complacency or indifference or neglect. Those who would destroy freedom of expression sometimes move forward in frontal assault; more often they attack flank, subtly, deviously, stealthily, raising, when the occasion suits them, false banners and slogans to entrap the unwary and the unsuspecting., Freedom of expression is not a particular virtue of the screen, the press, the stage, the radio, literature and the arts. It is a basic tenet of our^way of living. An attack on one is an attack on all. If one freedom falls, all freedom Is threatened. Our Industry has always stood with those who have fought and won the many notable battles In behalf of freedom of expression. No challenge to that freedom will find us unprepared to do our share. With kind regards, I am Sincerely yours.