Variety (Feb 1930)

Page scan 00097 from Variety

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
Feb 1930
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (February 1930)
Leaf #:
00097
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, 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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84 VARIETY Wednesday, February 12, 1930 First February comedy release:—and it spelU CABARET entertainment. With George LeMaire; Jimmy ConHn and Evalyn Knapp. Featuree real Broad • way talent—^Ryan Sisters, Sam Raynor, Dave Manley, Leo Kendall and others. And Eddie Elkins' orchestra! BUCK AIVD BUBBLES In n 1 G It - T O N E D Second February comedy release—and it spells NEGRO FUN. With Buck and Bubbles, vaudeville l^adliners, from Hugh Wiley^s Siatevepoet story. Music includes "My Old Kentucky Home," "12th Street Rag," "Clarinet Marmalade," and "Lonely Me,'* o explain why 8 out of every lo 6 theatres are steadily playing - PAT HE ^^DOING PHIL A FAVOB^^^ Third February release—comedy of DOMESTIC TANGLE. Featuring the famous English comedian, Mackenzie Ward, supported by Val Lester and George Thorpe. A frame-up on a flirtatious wife that results in an up. roarious situation of frivolity. ^'€ROii»BY'S CORNERS Fourth February comedy release—and \ it's BURLESQUE RUBE stuff of the best kind! Written by Harry B. Watson, featuring Reg Mcrville and Felix Rush, with Josephine Fontaine and George Patten in support. Rube- ville Band plays throughout! •A COMEDIES