Variety (Jan 1942)

Page scan 0007 from Variety

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
Jan 1942
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (January 1942)
Leaf #:
0007
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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8 piGTinass Thirty^ixlh k^ksUEtr Annirenary Jinuaiy 7, 1942 W£NDCUL L.WILLKie IS Broad StAECT New York December 4th, 1941 The Editor "Variety" , 154 West 46th Street New Tort, N. Y. D^r Sir: My heartiest congratxiletions to "Variety" on its 3i5th .Anniversary* The theatre, the moti^^n pictures and the other forms of pnhllc entertaionient, are an essen- tial and indispensable part of vihat we, In general terms, descrihe es the American way of life. The freedom of the theatre, in all Its form, from unreasonable and destructive censorship and political interference^is in- - dispensable to their proper functioning. "Variety" magazine's gallant fighting for ;f*a;t id so appropriately called "The Fifth Freedom" - the right of self-expression in entertainment - is performing a distinctive public service and particularly so at -this time vben every assault on any of the freedoms must be vigorously resisted. My best wishes for the continued life end health of "Variety**