Cue (magazine)
US magazine
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Cue was a weekly magazine that covered theatre and arts events in New York from 1932 to 1980, when it was taken over by New York magazine.
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| Categories | listings |
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| Frequency | weekly |
| Publisher | Mort Glankoff |
| Total circulation | 300,000 (1980) |
| Founder | Mort Glankoff |
| First issue | November 5, 1932 |
| Final issue | April 25, 1980 |
| Based in | New York, New York |
| ISSN | 0011-2658 |
Cue was the first of the city magazines, serving as a model for those that followed.[1]
History
Cue was founded in 1932 by Mort Glankoff.[2]
Claudette Colbert was on the cover of the first issue. The magazine's focus was evident from its various taglines over the years:
- Naborhood Theater Guide
- The Weekly Magazine of Stage and Screen
- The Weekly Magazine of New York Life
- New York's own Entertainment Magazine
- New York's only complete entertainment weekly
- Where to go—What to do—in New York
- The complete entertainment guide for New York and the Suburbs
- For New York and the Suburbs The complete entertainment guide.
Cue was an early listings magazine. BBC's Radio Times listed radio schedules in 1923. Cue, with its city-specific focus, was the model for a genre that came to include Time Out, which now has 108 city editions.[3]
Glankoff sold Cue to Rupert Murdoch's New York magazine in 1980. Cue was prized for its listings section.[4] Glankoff died in August 1986.[5]
David Ewen was music editor for Cue in 1937 and 1938.[6]
