Variety (January 1954)

Page scan 000251 from Variety

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
January 1954
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (January 1954)
Leaf #:
000251
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Recorded Sound",Vaudeville,Theatre,Broadcastin
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Early Cinema, and Theatre and Vaudeville
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
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:
March 28, 2024
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Forty-eighth AnriiverBary i Wednesday, January 6, I954 Thanks, Chicago, for A Wonderful ’53 LENNY COLYER “Mr. Specs Himself” Pers. Management: AL BORDE 203 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago UBIETY Chicago, Chi Chicago, May 1, “Lenny Colyer acts as emcee besides filling the comedy " slot in fine fashion. He has some good : quips about 3-D films and .specs and also, about local politics. Comedian gets laughs with his takeoff on Billy Daniels, but even more effective is his carbon of the Johnnie Ray imitators. For his finale he has a switch on the Red Skelton gin skit, bathing a baby with alcohol. Water drenched, he gets yocks as he mops up the stage.” Black Orchid. Chi (FOLLOWUP) Chicago, Aug 4. “Impressions are his real forte, and he swings directly into a riotous routine after his slightly scented monology of the forepart. Ten top chanters are subjected to his pointed caricature, each carbon ..rating. „a_big Lmitt for accuracy and hearty" chuckles Tor burlesque. Best offerings are impersonations of Billy Eckstine (“a yawn in a low register”), . Frankie. Laine, Rose Murphy, and Carmen Lombardo. Face contorted, hair disheveled, and pounding a shoe against the floor he sings “Cry” a la Johnnie Ray for terrific walkoff.” Crossroads, Clil Chicago, Nov. 16. “Lenny Colyer headlines the present bill with a split routine that has equally divided success. Forepart is a ragout of garden variety jokes that fails to stop the chinking of glasses arid silverware. Latter half is strong, rousing the house to cackles and applause in a string of satirical impressions of bigtime singers with a few sharp gags intermingled.”