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Variety (Nov 1948)

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Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
Nov 1948
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (November 1948)
Leaf #:
00044
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:
November 23, 2023
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Walter Winchell says show business is in a SLUMP! "The slump in all entertainment fields continues ... Income is down , . . People are spending their pay on rent and food . , . Bools; sales are off 280 p. c. (with publishers most worried about the competition now offered by television-set owners . . . Movie box-offices report "it is box-awfull" with biz off from 50 to 60 p. c. in some cities . . . Music biz is hardest hit; name bands have trouble meeting payrolls . . . Song hits that once sold half-a-miUion copies now sell about 40,000 copies of sheet music . . . Even Television has the blues. One station laid off 40 last week." DaUy Mirror, Oct. 25, 1948. BUT Nof for us^ ''Queen of fhe Juke Soxes" "The Quarfefte You Rave About" DINAH WASHINGTON Mercury Recording Arfiste THE RAVENS National Recording Artists CURRENTLY ONE-NIGHTER$ with GEORGE HUDSON Orchestra Opening Novemlier 26tlt PARADISE THEATRE Detroit, Micltigan UNIVERSAL ATTRACTIONS 347 Madison Avenue, New York City MU 9-4076