Cue (magazine)

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.
Cue was the first of the city magazines, serving as a model for those that followed.

History

Cue was founded in 1932 by Mort Glankoff.
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 SuburbsThe 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.
Glankoff sold Cue to Rupert Murdoch's New York magazine in 1980. Cue was prized for its listings section. Glankoff died in August 1986.
David Ewen was music editor for Cue in 1937 and 1938.