Variety (April 1920)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
April 1920
Publisher:
Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (April 1920)
Leaf #:
00042
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine
Collection:
Early Cinema, Theatre and Vaudeville, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Q. David Bowers and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
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
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

"' V, i;';■' -■# 43 T '20'"- '■■'\St'''--f" \ \ al^' IN THE . \' ::.): r •V \' /■• './ -. ORPHEUM THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO ORPHEUM THEATRE, ST. LOUK ORPHEUM THEATRE, KANSAS CITY t ORPHEUM THEATRE, MINNEAPOLIS ' ORPHEUM THEATRE, NEW ORLEANS ORPHEUM THEATRE, OAOJIND ^^^^ ORPHEUM THEATRE, LOS ANGELES If ORPHEUM THEATRE, DENVER ^ d^rSifil X ■•• :• ^ ':■}:-'y< ORPHEUM THEATRE, ST. K/OJL >^ ®5^® ";?••;• iM'^ 'ORPHEUM THEATRE, WINNIPEG >v ORPHEUM THEATRE, VANCOUVER f I&: * ;5'; ORPHEUM THEATRE, OMAHA 'SfflSgSS!!.,,, r ORPHEUM THEATRE, MEMPHIS - -^'^'- ->; i^v.-'*--.'.!'^" -•: V /".'^y^iii^^^:^ ::vj«: ORPHEUM THEATRE, DULUTH ORPHEUM THEATRE, SALT LAKE ORPHEUM THEATRE, DES MOINES ORPHEUM THEATRE, LINCOLN , PALACE MUSIC HALL, CHICAGO MAJESTIC THEATRE, CfflCAGO I MAJESTIC THEATRE, MILWAUKEB": -^^^^^^^ ^|ifOO^ THEATRE, SEATTLEv --^^^^iSUM^ HEILIG T^ATRE, PORTLAND ;J|^^^ 'state-lake THEATRE, CfflCACkl';'Sl|fft$?:|| :PALACE THEATRE, MILWAUKEE ^^i^iS^^vg^v" PALACE THEATRE, NEW OIOiEANS "#^ GRAND OPERA HOUSE, ^T. LOITO : S t-^^^ RIALTO THEATRE, ST. LOUffi ORPHEUM THEATRE, MADISON ^ ORPHEUM THEATRE, SIOUX CITY OIRPHEUM THEATRE, CHAMPAIGN LINCOLN THEATRE, CHICAGO AMERICAN THEATRE, CHICAGO ^^^ 1^ PALACE THEATRE, ROCKFORD COLUMBIA THEATRE, DAVENPORT S^ MAJESTIC THEATRE, SPRINGFIELD 3 EMPRESS THEATRE, DECATUR ^ CLUNIE THEATRE, SACRAMENTO WHITE THEATRE, FRESNO ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, VICTORU GRAND THEATRE, CALGARY ■H:' v. A