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Like Editor Sime Silverman of Variety (TIME, April 7), Zit began his journalistic career on the New York Morning Telegraph. In 1904 he started a vaudeville department in the Telegram, switched to the now-defunct Evening Mail where he originated the "racetrack chart" form of reviewing vaudeville bills...
...give 150,000 francs ($5,882.35) to Actor Pierre Meyer. The court had found that Variety had reported that the only reason Actor Meyer was appearing in the Palace Music Hall Revue in Paris was because his wife had financed the show. In addition, slow-spoken, big-nosed Editor Sime Silverman was sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment...
...province is largely bounded by a window facing Manhattan's West 46th Street in which he sits on a dais-like structure. Across from him sits his son Sid to whom he gave half his paper last year. As much a part of him as Son Sid is Sime Silverman's Variety...
...confines himself to sherry, champagne His black silk stock, early Victorian wing collar and frock coat attract stares. An English wisecracker, he likes to pin actors with a phrase. Besides the Express, he writes for the London Bystander, for Manhattan's slangy Variety (stage trade journal whose language Editor Sime Silverman defends on the grounds that Variety caters "strictly to hams and theatre managers and acrobats...
...docket, despite its having cleared up 35,000 hangovers from the last three years. For the first time in history, the Office had felt obliged to rid itself of its vast accumulation of working models. Some 50,000 designs patented prior to 1880 were turned over to museums; sime 2,500 were returned to heirs; several thousand were sold at public auction...