Variety (December 1917)

Page scan 000248 from Variety

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
December 1917
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (December 1917)
Leaf #:
000248
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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VARIETY 87 i SEASON'S GREETINGS LEVEY CIRCUIT THEATRES ALCAZAR THEATRE BUILDING SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. The Best Popular Priced Vaudeville Circuit in the West VIVIAN BLACKBURN AND ELWOOD F. BOSTWICK and Associate Players IN "PEACOCK ALLEY" By LEWIS ALLEN BROWNE THIS WEEK B. F. KEITH'S, CINCINNATI EDW. S. KELLER, Manager JACK FASS Presents Harry Delmar Singing and Dancing Juvenile Featured in His Big Parkway Palace REVUE Brooklyn, N. Y. Now in Its 27th Week GEO. J. MAYNARD, Director New York, November 20, 1917. My Dear Jack: • I want to commend the show in the highest terms. No one but a vaudeville man could have produced it. It was full of good novelties, and has a snap and go to it which keeps the audience entertained from start to finish. My family and my- self enjoyed a real night's pleasure. I trust "Odds and Ends" will be as fully appreciated by the public as it deserves, and that the box office receipts will war- rant your staying there all winter. Cordially yours,