United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)1929-11-04/1929-11-09Circular for the Douglass Theatre, featuring The Drifter, Four Sons, Jazz Age, The City of Purple Dreams, and Vanishing Hoofs, dated November 4 through November 9, 1929. On the cover of the program, an image of Tom Mix advertises The Drifter (1929), one of the last silent films made by Mix, distributed by FBO Pictures. Underneath the image is the announcement that sound on disc is coming soon. On the second page, an image of four young men advertises the film Four Sons (1928), presented by producer William Fox (whose Fox Film Corporation merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935 to become Twentieth Century Fox). The image is followed by a brief plot outline. The next image advertises the film Jazz Age (1929), another FBO Pictures release, and includes the names of its stars, followed by a brief synopsis of the film. The following page shows a drawing of an unshaven man grabbing a woman's arm while another unshaven man grabs his arm and prepares to punch him. An inset box advertises the film The City of Purple Dreams (1928), and lists the names of the stars. A brief synopsis of the film follows. The final page advertises the film Vanishing Hoofs (1926), with a drawing of a man on a horse rescuing a woman from a car that has plunged over a cliff. The advertisement emphasizes adventure and "a good Western picture." At the bottom appears an advertisement for Smith's Place at The Hamburg Foundry, located next to the Douglass Theatre.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.text/htmlimage/jpegdbr040http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/Manuscript held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records, 1906-1967, box 20, folder 190, document 3.Western films--United StatesFeature films--United StatesNewsreels--United StatesMotion picture serialsComedy films--United StatesMotion picture theaters--Georgia--MaconFilm posters--Georgia--MaconAdvertising--Motion pictures--Georgia--MaconAdvertising fliers--Georgia--MaconFour sons (Motion picture : 1928)Jazz age (Motion picture : 1929)City of purple dreams (Motion picture : 1928)Drifter (Motion picture : 1929)Vanishing hoofs (Motion picture : 1926)Bedford, Barbara, 1900?-Day, MarcelineFairbanks, Douglas, 1909-Gadson, JacquelineFrazer, Robert, 1889-1944Mix, Tom, 1880-1940Torrence, David, 1864-1951Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale), 1878-1936Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)Douglass Theatre, Macon, Ga. : program week of Nov. 4Text