United States, Florida, Duval County, Jacksonville, 30.33218, -81.65565United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324Seligman, Mort1927-10-18Letter from Mort Seligman of the Jacksonville, Florida-based New Frolic Theatre, to Ben Stein, owner and manager of the Douglass Theatre, dated October 18, 1927, regarding film and advertising circulation. Seligman notifies Stein that he is showing Oscar Micheaux's film The Millionaire on October 30 and 31, following Stein on October 27 and 28 and asks Stein to make sure that the shipment of the film is made promptly so that Seligman receives it on time. He adds that he has not received promotional photos and asks Stein to send promotional photos along with the film if he received them. Seligman adds that he showed a preview of the film Moon of Israel to a large group of school principals, teachers and ministers to great success, and recommends the film to Stein. H. Rider Haggard's 1918 retelling of the Exodus, Moon of Israel, was the source of the 1924 Michael Curtiz film of the same name. Paramount bought the film for U.S. distribution. 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.image/jpegtext/htmldbr032Blues, Black vaudeville, and the silver screen, 1912-1930s (Digital Library of Georgia) GAGALhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/African Americans in the motion picture industryAfrican Americans in motion picturesRace in motion picturesRace films--United StatesReligious films--United StatesReligion in motion picturesFeature films--United StatesMotion picture theaters--Georgia--MaconMotion picture theaters--Florida--JacksonvilleFilm postersAdvertising--Motion picturesTheater management--Florida--JacksonvilleTheatrical managers--Florida--JacksonvilleMillionaire (Motion picture : 1927)Sklavenkonigin. English (Motion picture : 1924)Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)New Frolic Theatre (Jacksonville, Fla.)Seligman, GusMicheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925. Moon of IsraelStein, BenLetter: Jacksonville, Florida to Ben Stein, Macon, Georgia, 1927 Oct. 18Text