Variety (December 1914)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
December 1914
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (December 1914)
Leaf #:
000219
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 29, 2022
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84 VARIETY ENVIED, ADMIRED, IMITATED, BUT NEVER EQUALLED SEASON'S GREETINGS TO ALL COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON MAJESTIC Clothes Shop INCORPORATED Room 900, Majestic Theatre Bldg, CHICAGO Tom Hickey Of 3 Hlckcy Bros Ed. Weiskopf Manager aoi KING OF SLANG DETROIT "NEWS" TEMPLE-VAUDEVILLE Two old favorites, one of them in a new environment, and a newcomer, who will be an old favorite after this week, feature excellent variety at the Temple. Bert Leslie is one of the familiar visitors to the theatre and always a welcome visitor. His sketch this year takes Hogan, the painter, to London.. As usual, it is chiefly note- worthy because it serves to introduce a score of brand new slang phrases which in another six months will be in every- body's vocabulary. Several musical com- edies and dozens of vaudeville acts would lose much of their wit if Bert Leslie could nail down his stuff. One of the best ones was used in "Watch Your Step" last week. You got to be pretty good when they all steal your stuff. And they all steal Bert's. Salutes you and presents the compliments of the season for BERT LESLIE P. S. Frank James and the Dalton Boys were mild purloiners to AL JOLSON. MERRY XMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR JIMMIE and MYRTLE UNELDIN Direction, A OU I CHARLES PRELLE'S Miniature Circus L THE ONLY ORIGINAL DOG ACT OF THIS KIND IN THE WORLD, INTRODUCING "THE ROBBERY OF THE OVERLAND MAIL' NOW PLAYING Orpheum Circuit Direction, Paul Duraiid M. S. BENTHAM Presents Under Management of Chas. B. Dillingham