Variety (Jul 1946)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
Jul 1946
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (July 1946)
Leaf #:
000198
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",Vaudeville,Theatr
Collection:
Early Cinema, Theatre and Vaudeville, and Hollywood Studio System
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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Wednesday, July 24, 1946 When you're deoling them off the top of the deck seven nights o week to over 28,000,000 radio homes, Columbia** new "Jock Kirkwood Show" is a pretty good! card to have up your sleeve. Hollywood Variety call* it "as solidly laugh-latching as anything heard on the air" But there if more than just a show up our There's the persistent determination and effort by Columbia to produce programs inject- ing new entertainment and vitality into radio listening. The Kirkwood show is just a recent example. The network's J$tory reveals many others doting back to th^ S^br years of the last decade." "' \> > ' ;^ ^ ^ . Out of this effort hove emerged some of radio's greatest names-names like Kate Smith, Guy Lombardo, Frank Slnatro, Bing Crosby- names of writers, producers and performers who have added luster to the radio art. We readily admit to trying to stack the cards by loading our kilocycles 18 hours a day with the best entertainment and information within our power. We're stacking them in the interests of radio's listeners which is another way of saying radio's sponsors. The adjacent list of CBS feature Productions* gives you an idea. Columbia Broadcasting System