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...months, he said, and short, swart, 210-pound Nat Kahn, eight years a mugg, would be boss. Out in Hollywood, Green will help Warner Bros, erect it's long-planned monument to the man who made slangy Variety the "showbiz" oracle it is: Founder Sime ("Mr. Broadway") Silverman...
Acid Upstart. Sime Silverman was fired from the old New York Morning Telegraph for panning a theatrical act that had bought an ad. He borrowed $1,500 from his father-in-law to push into the clamorous crowd of stage-door journalism. His maiden editorial in 1905 carried an acid promise: to print the news "without regard to whose name is mentioned, or the advertising columns...
...first starveling years, while Silverman feuded with the powerful theatrical houses of Shubert and Albee, actors shied away from his columns (if they bought space, they might get fired). But in dingy dressing rooms and rocking tourist sleepers, Variety became the hometown paper of every vaudevillager whose slanguage it spoke. Sime Silverman kept it a jump ahead of the sheriff and ahead of the times, managed to shift its accent to the movies long before vaudeville died...
Mugg-Maker. From his desk overlooking the street, on a dais where a coutouriére's models once paraded. Silverman fed items to fledgling Gossip Walter Winchell, made knowing muggs out of Jack Lait (now editor of Hearst's New York Mirror) and Columnist Louis Sobol, bought pieces from Quentin Reynolds, Funnymen Fred Allen, Joe Laurie Jr., Milton Berle. As show business became big business and Variety grew, he covered radio and the "niteries," added a Hollywood daily edition and bureaus in London and Paris, picked up scores of stringers in the U.S. and abroad...
...really deserve our thanks. Company Commander C. Travelstead; Section Leaders, J. J. Hessler, R. I. Wasserman; Adjutants, R. L. Riddle and R. B. Gailbraith; Platoon Leaders, W. J. Barth, F. V. Chew, T. F. Halsey, L. H. Leary, H. J. McNutt, A. J. Perrine, T. J. Stevenson and S. Silverman we salute you and hope you keep up the good work...