- Collection:
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s: Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre
- Title:
- Letter: New York, New York to Douglass New Theatre, Macon, Georgia, 1925 Dec. 29
- Creator:
- Micheaux, Swan E., Jr.
- Date of Original:
- 1925-12-29
- Subject:
- Micheaux Film Corporation
African Americans in the motion picture industry
African Americans in motion pictures
Race in motion pictures
Race films--United States
Feature films--United States
Motion picture theaters--Georgia--Macon
Film posters--Georgia
Advertising--Motion pictures--Georgia--Macon
Commercial agents--New York
Devil's disciple (Motion picture : 1926)
Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
text/html - Description:
- Letter from Swan E. Micheaux, Jr., brother of African American director Oscar Micheaux and one-time secretary of the Micheaux Film Corporation, to the gentlemen of the Douglass Theatre, dated December 29, 1925, requesting contracts for showing the film The Devil's Disciple. Micheaux asks to receive contracts on the film that were sent some time before and notes that he is enclosing a herald. The Devil's Disciple, released in 1926, starred Evelyn Preer, Lawrence Chenault, Edward Thompson, and Percy Verwayen.
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:
- dbr019
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr019
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_dtrm_dbr019
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_dtrm_dbr019/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:
- [2] p.
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records, 1906-1967, box 19, folder 169, document 51.
- Holding Institution:
- Washington Memorial Library, Middle Georgia Regional Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
[Note: This document contains typewritten, handwritten, and printed text.]
[printed text:
MICHEAUX FILM CORPORATION
Producers and Distributors of High Class
Negro Feature Photoplays
LABORATORIES
430 CLAREMONT PARKWAY
NEW YORK CITY
STUDIO AND GENERAL OFFICES
[deleted text: ROANOKE, VA. [VIRGINIA] OSCAR MICHEAUX, PRESIDENT
W. B. F. CROWELL, V-PRES. [VICE PRESIDENT]
A. F. BROOKS, TREASURER
C. TIFFANY TOLIVER, SEC'Y[SECRETARY]]
[typewritten text: 2195 Seventh Ave. [Avenue]
New York, N.Y. [New York]
December 29, 1925
Douglass New Theatre
355-359 Broadway
Macon, Ga. [Georgia]
Gentlemen;
We have been looking to receive contracts we sent you some time ago on "THE DEVIL'S DECIPLE [DISCIPLE]". We are inclosing [enclosing] you herald on this production and trust that you can use the same at a early date. We thank you for giving this a early reply, we are.
Very truly
[Signed] MICHEAUX FILM CORPORATION]
[Signed] [written text: S. E. Micheaux]
[The following text is printed in red ink at the bottom of the page, framed by a single line]
[printed text:
SPECIAL FEATURES AND LENGTH, IN THE ORDER OF RELEASE
"THE HOMESTEADER"
7 REELS WITH
EVELYN PREER "THE GUNSAULUS MYSTERY"
7 REELS WITH
EVELYN PREER "BIRTHRIGHT"
10 REELS WITH
EVELYN PREER AND J. HOMER TUTT
"WITHIN OUR GATES"
7 REELS WITH
EVELYN PREER "THE DUNGEON"
7 REELS WITH
WM. E. FOUNTAINE AND SHINGZIE HOWARD "A SON OF SATAN"
7 REELS WITH
ANDREW S. BISHOP AND ALL STAR CAST
"THE BRUTE"
7 REELS WITH
EVELYN PREER "VIRGIN OF SEMINOLE"
6 REELS WITH
WM. E. FOUNTAINE AND SHINGZIE HOWARD "THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS"
9 REELS WITH
ANDREW S. BISHOP AND SHINGZIE HOWARD
"SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED"
7 REELS WITH
ALL STAR CAST "DECEIT"
6 REELS WITH
EVELYN PREER "BODY AND SOUL"
9 REELS WITH
PAUL ROBESON
]]
Page: [2]
[Note: This page contains miscellaneous mathematical figures in the top, right, and bottom margins.]
[written text: Jim
[unclear text: Son of M. M.]
Macon, Ga. [Georgia]
Jan - 4]