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The Variety Hour

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

A few of the words

ANNOUNCER
The announcer was the show's master of ceremonies and its commercial voice, reading sponsor copy, introducing acts, and keeping the pace of a live broadcast moving with practiced ease.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CROONER
Bing Crosby helped define the crooner style in the 1930s, using the microphone's sensitivity to deliver an intimate, almost conversational tone that earlier, pre-mic singers simply couldn't achieve.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FANFARE
A brief brass fanfare at the top of the hour told listeners at home, and in the studio audience, that the show was on the air and something worth hearing was about to begin.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
EMCEE
The word emcee is simply the spoken spelling of "MC," short for master of ceremonies, a role that variety radio elevated into a star turn all its own.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The Variety Hour word search

The Variety Hour: a free large-print word search

The Variety Hour, a free, large-print word search set in the golden age of radio, where orchestras swelled and comedians ruled the airwaves.

About The Variety Hour

On a good Friday evening in the 1940s, the whole family might angle their chairs toward the console radio the way a later generation would face a television set. A variety hour could deliver a full-orchestra overture, a silky crooner, a rapid-fire comedy sketch, and a sign-off jingle, all in sixty minutes of live broadcast. The announcer's warm baritone welcoming you to the show was itself a kind of curtain rising, a signal that the evening's entertainment had officially begun.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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