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The cover of Variety’s debut issue, published on Dec. 16, 1905, touted the “Reviews of the Week” by Chicot and Sime. These were the pen names of Epes W. Sargent and Sime Silverman. (Silverman, founder of this publication, left the New York Morning Telegraph to launch Variety, after negatively reviewing a show put on by an advertiser.)
So much about the business today would be unrecognizable to Silverman. But as our magazine turns 120 — an anniversary we celebrate in this issue by looking
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