Variety (September 1913)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
September 1913
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (September 1913)
Leaf #:
000109
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
Sponsor:
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communication Arts
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 28, 2022
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VARIETY The Schwar Co In their ORIGINAL SKETCH 66 THE BROKEN MIRROR The Hit of London, Paris and Berlin 'The Broken Mirror'' reflected in the Mirror of the World's Press w Wherever the well-known 5chwarz Bros, appeared they vere the talkof the town. Their lever-failing command of the ituation, their drastic comedy vorky void of the slightest sug- jjestipn of vulgarity, the really xcellent interpretation of the .dea on which the sketch is i)ased, creates a certain gratitude ' )f the audience, which forms the loundation of their great success. The unrivalled technique of his capital sketch causes devel- opments of such surprising inci- lents full of overpowering farce, hat the result is one hearty continuous laugh. After seeing "The Broken Mirror" one understands the cleaning of sketches that has ever been seen in the West End. '*TO LAUGH TEARS. t» LONDON "REFEREE":— " It is long since I have heard so much spontaneous and vhole-hearted merriment at the Hippodrome as there was luring the sketch, *The Broken Mirror.' " LONDON **EVENING NEWS":— THE BEST SKETCH IN THE WEST END Out of the excellent programme at the Hippodrome it eems invidious to select any for special mention. But if ontinuity of laughter and applause may be taken as a cri- terion of success, then the SchwarzCompany were the feature f the performance. Delightful and dexterous from beginning lo end, '^'I'hc Broken Mirror'' is one of the most entertaining ** SOUTH AFRICAN NEWS":— THE MIRROR MARVEL AT THE EMPIRE, JOHANNESBURG The cleverest sketch yet seen in Johannesburg was presented at the Empire on Monday night by the Schwarz Company. In "The Broken Mirror" an orig- inal idea has been brilliantly worked up. The story is gro- tesquely simple and irresistibly funny. The audience was ab- solutely convulsed with laughter. The climax was received with shrieks of laughter, and no one should miss it. BERLIN '^ORGAN":— A storm of laughter is a term often applied without cause by many performers, but the Schwarz Brothers are fully en- titled to use this expression when referring to the unrivalled success of their farcical sketch, "The Broken Mirror." Their artful artistic work creates no end of laughter night after night at the Apollo Theatre, Berlin. It would be impossible to find anything so complete with comical situations, pantomime, and a finish so surprising, that would match this novelty. The Schwarz Bros, will never have to be afraid of competi- tors, as their sketch is not only diff^erent, but far above any- thing ever shown before. The public acknowledges this with storms of applause. Engaged for America by Messrs. Comstock & Gest for ''Mariette" with Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, through H. B. Marinelli