Variety (December 1914)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
December 1914
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (December 1914)
Leaf #:
000235
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",Vaudeville,Theatr
Collection:
Early Cinema, Hollywood Studio System, 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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VARIETY HELEN The Pianosongwhistleress in Vaudeville WRITES, COMPOSES AND SINGS HER OWN SONGS Many thanks to MR. LONEY HASKELL for first New York showing Direction RQSE & CURTIS Merry Xmas PAUL DURAND presents PIERRE PELLETIER AND COMPANY IN "THE 10:40 WEST" By HAROLD SELMAN A Thrilling Comedy and Dramatic Playlet of New York Underworld Pierre Pelletier, a young actor of virility and ability, plays the detective role with convincing realism and the two young women who play the roles of the blackmailers are also exceptionally clever. The piece depicts the efforts of two feminine crooks to make a "get-away" on the train for the west leaving at 10:40 after they have pulled off a robbery of $2,000 from an old man whom one of them has been inveigling into a compromising cor- respondence which she proposes to use in a blackmailing scheme. "The 10:40 West" is full of tense situations, effective lines and clever acting. Sudden changes, counterplot, comedy and enough intensity to keep the drama going for 10 years.-Carlton W. Miles, Minneap- olis "Journal." Too much comedy for an underworld act - but to please majority of theatre Roers it's a happy fault. - New Orleans "Pica yunc" PELLETIER At "Detective Kent" ORPHEUM Some Act! Some Acting! Some Realism! U. B. O. MERRY XMAS TO ALL VAUDEVILLE'S FUNNY KNOCKABOUT COMEDIANS Mennetti and Sidelli ile Envoys From Funland MERRY XMAS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS Meyako Sisters KEITH'S BOSTON THIS WEEK