Variety (July 1929)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
July 1929
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (July 1929)
Leaf #:
000300
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",Vaudeville,Theatr
Collection:
Early Cinema, Theatre and Vaudeville, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library, Media History Digital Library
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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Wednesday, July 24, 1929 V A R I E T Y DOING N- Y, "Times^* (Jtdy 22) '^Charles. Ray, \ still, possessing .: the . cliarni. that made him a cinema) fa- ■yofite, opens the; second half of the: ;program with an act largely devoted ';to 'songs.": — "Charles Ray, one-time movie fayor^ ite, reveals a likable stage personality and a nice, easy; way 6f singing songs." ■ . N. Y. "Eve, SvmT (July 22) "He has- a good stage personality,' N, Y. "World" (July 22) "Charles Ray,, the movie star, in per- son sings a few songs and docs the unprecedented thing of reciting a pre-: pared rhymed curtain speech which pleased the Saturday night audience immensely." . N. Y, "American'' (July 22) "There was' fhat. certain something that is Charles Ray that never fails to please." "Herald Tribune" (July 22) "Charles Ray . brings Huckleberry Finn to the stage and scores with his contributions. With the assistance- of Ray Gold at tlie piano the former screen star cuts comic capers to the delight of the patrons."' THIS WEEK (JULY 20) Representative 225 West 46th St., New York City