- Collection:
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s: Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre
- Title:
- Agreement between the Theatre Owners Booking Association and Ben Stein, 1928 Feb. 14
- Creator:
- Theatre Owners Booking Association
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stein, Ben
Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.) - Date of Original:
- 1928-02-14
- Subject:
- Theatre Owners Booking Association
Women blues musicians--United States
Blues musicians--United States
Blues (Music)--Georgia
Blues (Music)--To 1931
African Americans--Music
Musicians--Employment--Georgia--Macon
Entertainment events--Georgia
Theaters--Georgia--Atlanta
Theaters--Georgia--Macon
Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)
Reevin, Sam E.
Rainey, Ma, 1886-1939
Eighty-one Theatre (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- agreements
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
image/jpeg - Description:
- Agreement between the Theatre Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.), a Tennessee-based booking agency from 1920 to the 1930s for African American vaudeville acts, and Ben Stein, owner and manager of the Douglass Theatre, pertaining to the scheduled appearance of Ma Rainey and the Paramount Flappers at the Douglass Theatre, dated February 14, 1928. Rainey, born in Columbus, Georgia, is known as "the Mother of the Blues." The agreement shows that the performance spans three days, March 5 to March 7, 1928, and indicates that the twenty-three performers will share fifty percent of the revenue as salary in addition to a five percent commission. The address for tickets is listed as Eighty-One Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. Charles F. Bailey, known for being hard on performers, ran the white-owned Eighty-One Theatre, located on Decatur Street. The Douglass Theatre was a shareholder member of the circuit.
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:
- dbr047
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr047
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_dtrm_dbr047
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_dtrm_dbr047/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.
- Original Collection:
- Manuscript held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records, 1906-1967, box 20, folder 193, document 11.
- Holding Institution:
- Washington Memorial Library, Middle Georgia Regional Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
[Note: This document contains typewritten and printed text.]
[printed text:
THEATRE OWNERS BOOKING ASSOCIATION
CHATTANOOGA OFFICE: 1212-1213 VOLUNTEER BUILDING
SAM E. REEVIN, MANAGER
BOOKINGS
Date] [typewritten text: Feb. [February] 14th,] [printed text: 192] [typewritten text: 8]
[printed text: To]
[typewritten text: Mr. Ben Stein,
Douglass] [printed text: Theatre] [typewritten text: Macon] [printed text: City] Ga. [Georgia] [printed text: State]
3 days [printed text: [deleted text: Week of]] [typewritten text: MARCH 5th, 6th & 7th] [printed text: 192] [typewritten text: 8]
[printed text: Name of Act] [printed text: Salary] [printed text: Commission] [printed text: Address for Tickets]
[typewritten text: MA Rainey and her --] [printed text: $] [typewritten text: 50%] [printed text: $] [typewritten text: 5%] [typewritten text: Eighty-One Theatre, Atlanta, Ga. [Georgia]]
[typewritten text: "PARAMOUNT FLAPPERS"]
[typewritten text: 23 people --]
[printed text: TOTAL] [printed text: $] [typewritten text: 50%] [printed text: $] [typewritten text: 5%]
[printed text: Remarks:] [blank on form]
[printed text: 5M 2-26 ANGEL-CHATTA]