- Collection:
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s: Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre
- Title:
- Letter: Valdosta, Georgia to Ben Stein, Macon, Georgia, possibly 1927
- Creator:
- Stein, Luke
- Date of Original:
- 1927
- Subject:
- Motion picture theaters--Georgia--Macon
Motion picture theaters--Georgia--Valdosta
Theaters--Georgia--Macon
Theaters--Georgia--Valdosta
Vaudeville--Georgia
Boxing--Georgia--Macon
Entertainment events--Georgia
Sklavenkonigin. English (Motion picture : 1924)
Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)
Stein, Ben
Palace Theatre (Valdosta, Ga.)
Reevin, Sam E. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
United States, Georgia, Lowndes County, Valdosta, 30.83334, -83.28032 - Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
text/html - Description:
- Letter from Luke Stein, owner and manager of the Palace Theatre in Valdosta, Georgia, to his brother Ben Stein, owner and manager of the Douglass Theatre, probably dated 1927, regarding theater business. Luke scolds his brother for not replying to his last letter or sending a report for a month. He complains that business is bad for all the theatres in town. Luke reports, however, that he did fairly well with The Moon of Israel and had good business at a midnight show. He urges Ben to arrange a Sunday midnight show using a film from the middle of the week or a good inexpensive film, because he has found that it will easily return a profit. Luke mentions that he is coming to Macon on Sunday and asks Ben to obtain a return ticket for him. He asks how Ben did on the latest prize fight and relates that he hopes he can work things out with the Strand to the satisfaction of his family. Luke concludes by asking about Ruth's health, to which he was alerted by a letter from Sophia. 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.
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:
- dbr094
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr094
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_dtrm_dbr094
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_dtrm_dbr094/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 22, folder 223, document 31.
- Holding Institution:
- Washington Memorial Library, Middle Georgia Regional Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
[Note: This document contains typewritten, handwritten, and printed text.]
[written text: [added text (appears to be different hand and ink): [ca. 1927]]]
[printed text:
THE PALACE THEATRE
INCORPORATED
OFFICE OF THE MANAGER
Valdosta, Ga. [Georgia],]
[typewritten text: Wednesday
Dear Ben;
As yet I have had no reply to my last letter to you, and also have had no report for the past month, are you to [too] buisy [busy], things have been mighty bad here, as all of the theatres are having the biggest, but none are doing anything, I had on The Moon of Israel Mon [Monday] and yesterday and did fairly well, charged fifty cents and thirty five for balcony, I also had a midnight show one minute after twelve on Sunday and had the balcony as that is one things that the gigs will do and that is at end to a midnight show, Why dont you try it it doesnt hardly any more, pick out a picture that you have on the middle of the week and see if you cant get it in Sunday and return it, or pick out a good picture cheap, and just use for that night as I know for the first time you will have a crowd, the hundred dollars or ever that you will do is just like finding it, be sure and adverti [advertise] it right, let them understand that it is Sunday night, especially if you have any vaudeville, the screen will give you enought [enough] publicity I am coming to Macon Sunday if you dont mind geta [get a] return ticket for
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me, I will leave here Sunday Morning getting there about 4Pm and will leave there Monday Morning, How did you do on the last prize fight. as yet I havent gotten togather [together] with the Strand as yet we are trying to work out things, I have a hunch that I am going to work out things for the best but as to how I am going to get Mother and Sam and the rest to be staisfied [satisfied] that is to come; How is Ruth feeling as Sophia wrote me that she wasent [wasn't] feeling welll [well] Love to Ruth Albert yourself;
Your bud]
[Signed] [written text: Lukie]