12 Facts About Sime Silverman

Simon J Silverman was an American journalist and newspaper publisher.

Sime Silverman was the founder of the weekly newspaper Variety in New York City in 1905, which gave theatre and vaudeville reviews and the Hollywood-based Daily Variety magazine in 1933, focusing on the emerging motion picture film industry.

Sime Silverman was not aware that Mrs Robson had given the Telegraph an advertising contract for $50.

Sime Silverman decided that he would have to start his own paper in order to be able to tell the truth.

Sime Silverman passed the editorship to Abel Green in 1931 but remained as publisher until his death, soon after launching the magazine Daily Variety.

In 1920, Sime Silverman purchased an old brownstone building at 154 West 46th Street in New York, which became the company's headquarters until its sale and demolition in 1988.

In 1922, Sime Silverman acquired the entertainment newspaper the New York Clipper.

Sime Silverman suffered from a bronchial condition and, for health reasons, had travelled to California for the two winters before his death.

Sime Silverman died on September 22,1933, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, from a lung hemorrhage.

Sime Silverman's body was found by casting director Ben Piazza and the editor of Daily Variety, Arthur Ungar, who suffered a mild heart attack on finding the body.

Sime Silverman's funeral was held at Congregation Emanu-El of New York on September 28,1933.

Sime Silverman was the subject of a biography by Dayton Stoddart in 1941.