Editing Revue (section)

== Etymology ==
Revue comes from the French word for "review," as in a "show presenting a review of current events."<ref>{{etymonline|revue}}</ref>

[[George Lederer]]'s ''[[The Passing Show]]'' (1894) is usually held to be the first successful American "review." The English spelling was used until 1907 when [[Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.]] popularized the French spelling. "Follies" is now sometimes (incorrectly) employed as an analog for "revue," though the term was proprietary to Ziegfeld until his death in 1932. Other popular proprietary revue names included [[George White's Scandals|George White's "Scandals,"]] [[Earl Carroll]]'s [[The Earl Carroll Vanities|"Vanities"]] and [[John Murray Anderson]]'s [[Greenwich Village Follies]].