- Collection:
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s: Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre
- Title:
- Letter: Macon, Georgia to Oscar Micheaux, Chicago, Illinois, 1927 Sept. 20
- Creator:
- Smith, William M., theater manager
- Date of Original:
- 1927-09-20
- Subject:
- Micheaux Film Corporation
Motion picture theaters--Georgia--Macon
Motion picture industry
African Americans in the motion picture industry
African Americans in motion pictures
Race in motion pictures
Commercial agents--Illinois--Chicago
Film posters--Georgia
Advertising--Motion pictures--Georgia--Macon
Negotiation--Georgia--Macon
Feature films--United States
Race films--United States
Millionaire (Motion picture : 1927)
Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)
Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
text/html - Description:
- File copy of a letter (possibly from William M. Smith, manager of the Douglass Theatre) to Oscar Micheaux, president of the Micheaux Film Corporation, dated September 20, 1927, negotiating terms for showing a film. The letter refers to rental of The Millionaire (see dbr027, dbr028, and dbr029 of the Douglass Theatre Web site). The writer explains that it will impossible for him to play Micheaux's picture on percentage because they are playing vaudeville. He offers Micheaux seventy-five dollars for two days, mentioning that business is off. The Millionaire, released in 1927, starred Grace Smith, J. Lawrence Criner, Lionel Monagas, Cleo Desmond, Samuel T. Jacks, E. G. Tatum, and Chicago Defender editor Robert S. Abbott.
Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2005, as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. - Local Identifier:
- dbr025
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr025
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_dtrm_dbr025
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_dtrm_dbr025/presentation/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Theater Records Series, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. Business Records, 1906-1967, Middle Georgia Archives, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- [1] p.
Manuscript held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records, 1906-1967, box 19, folder 173, document 5. - Holding Institution:
- Washington Memorial Library, Middle Georgia Regional Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
Sept. [September] 20th-27.
Mr. Oscar Micheaux,
Chicago, Ill [Illinois],
Dear Sir:
Your letter received and contract but it will be imposible [impossible] to play your picture on percentage as we are playing vaudeville, the best that I could offer you would be $75.00 for two days, I am signing contract to that effect and you can advise me so I can order paper from you at once, hoping that this will be alright [all right] as business is off and I am taking a great chance.
Wishing you much luck in business.
Yours,