

Take Me Along, Shubert Lii/li Palmer-Kasznar $21,675, Skowhegan, Me. Gangs All Here, Ambassador (10-1-59) Happy Town, 54th St. Scheduled B’way Preens Much Ado, Lunt-Fontanne (9-17-59). Palm Tree, Stage Society (7-24*59) : closed last Sunday (23). ' CLOSED Look Back In Anger, Gallery (6-24-59) ■ closed last Sunday (23). SCHEDULED OPENINGS Tunnel Of Love, Valley (9-11-59). Cold Wind, Players Ring C6-S-58V Murder in Red Barn, LeGrand (8-25-59). Billy Barnes Revue, Las Palmas (10-13-58). Waltz of the Toreadors, Cricket (4-6-59). Enemy of the People, Actors (2-4*59): Hasty Heart. dates) NEW YORK boy Friend, Cherry Lane (1-25-58). Previous week, $80,600 for seven perform- i ances at the Auditorium, Portland. Previous week, $55,000 with sub¬ scription. About $56,000 with Civic Light Opera subscription. Previous week, $76,100 with subscription. Almost $77,600 with Civic Light Opera sub¬ scription. House (CD-RS) (3d Wk) (Tom Ewell, Jan Sterling). in- elude 10% Federal tax and local:, tax, if any, out as on Broadway grosses are net He, exclusive of taxes / Engagements are for single week unless otherwise noted, CENTRAL CITY, COLO, Gazebo, Opera. Estimates for Last Week Parenthetic designations for oui- of-toivn shows are: the same as for Broadway, except that hyphenated T with show classification indicates tryout and RS indicates road show. The other five entries on the list held strong. “Say, Darling’’ picked lip only slightly in Lcs Angeles\. The lineup of offerings was increased by the Canadian revue, “Jubilee,”, which opened to poor business in Toronto.

Wednesday^ August 26,1959 P^RlEFY LEGITIMATE §7 Business continued lively, for- most road shows last week. Variety may ultimately be best remembered for its integration of show business slang into entertainment trade coverage. 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. 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. 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).

Theatre and Vaudeville, Early Cinema, and Hollywood Studio Systemįounded in 1905 by Sime Silverman, Variety is the best known and most important trade paper in the history of American entertainment. Motion Pictures, Recorded Sound",Vaudeville,Theatre,Broadcastin
