Variety (Jan 1947)

Page scan 000186 from Variety

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
Jan 1947
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (January 1947)
Leaf #:
000186
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",Vaudeville,Theatr
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Early Cinema, and Theatre and Vaudeville
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:
July 04, 2024
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14M> Forty-first p^^ASjlETY Anniversary Wealnesday, January 8, 1947 RADIO VARIETY says . . . "Olsen's line of gab is fast and funny, and as emcee he manages to infuse the show with a clambake spirit in which anything goes." RECORDS THE BILLBOARD says . . . •"Let's Play House,' with Johnny Olsen and Bette Buckner going back vocally to their childhood days, make the dittying count." (Apollo No. 1013) Also, in Swedish Dialect, "The Smorgasbord Song" Victor No. 251055. TILEVISION THE BILLBOARD says ... "Zip and lany emsee, Johnny Olsen, was in rare shape and with his fast patter proved hirnself, as usual, a iopnotch videoentertainer." THEATRE THE EVENING TRIBUNE, LAWRENCE, MASS. sdys . . . "The jampacked Warner Theatre, which has echoed to the laughter provoked by the best comics in vaudeville, never had a more engaging entertainer than Johnny Olsen, nor a more re^ceptive audience." "LADIES BE SEATED" "OLSEN RUMPUS ROOM Both on ABC CoasMo-Coast and TELEVISION Thanks to."QUAKER OATS" (Aunt Jemima) Our Sponsor-and My Gal PENNY WARD WILSON BERT LEE MARTY GLICKMAN HEARD TOGETHER ON 66 Warm" Up. Time^^ ^ ^Sports Extra e 99 WHN NEW YORK'S STATION FOR SPORTS