- Collection:
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s: Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre
- Title:
- Letter: Jacksonville, Florida to Ben Stein, Macon, Georgia, 1928 July 9
- Creator:
- Joel, L. D.
- Date of Original:
- 1928-07-09
- Subject:
- Motion picture theaters--Georgia--Macon
Capitalists and financiers--Florida--Jacksonville
Sale of small businesses--Georgia--Macon
Acquisition of property--Georgia--Macon
Motion picture theaters--Purchasing--Georgia--Macon
Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)
Stein, Luke
Stein, Ben - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, 32.84069, -83.6324
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
text/html - Description:
- Letter from L. D. Joel to Ben Stein, owner and manager of the Douglass Theatre, dated July 9, 1928, responding to a business proposition from Stein. Joel explains that he cannot join in any outside theater venture because he is planning to build a theatre. He advises Stein to make the Douglass Theatre profitable rather than turning the Douglass into a theater for "white people." Joel remarks that it is a gamble to operate a theater, but that if the Douglass Theatre were purchased at a reasonable figure, then Stein and his brother Luke, owner and manager of the Palace Theatre in Valdosta, Georgia, could handle it together. He affirms that they can make a success out of the Douglass Theatre. Joel generously offers to endorse a paper to purchase the Douglass Theatre from its stockholders.
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:
- dbr096
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr096
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_dtrm_dbr096
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_dtrm_dbr096/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 36.
- Holding Institution:
- Washington Memorial Library, Middle Georgia Regional Library
- Rights:
-
Page: [1]
[Note: This document contains handwritten and printed text.]
[printed text:
The Casino Corporation
Capital Stock $150,000.00
THEATRES AND INVESTMENTS
Casino Theatre Bldg. [Building]
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA]
[written text: July 9th 1928
Dear Ben
Answering Your letter of the 6th beg to say at Present I Cannot go into any outside Theatre Venture as I am at Present figuring on building a 10 Theatre on our Property adjoining the [unclear text: Carling] Hotel;
I note what you have to say in reference to turning the Douglas into a Film House for White People and having a better location in mind for Colored of Course You being on the ground floor should be in a better Position to Judge than me. but frankly speaking if it were me I'd leave it alone for the Present and use every effort to make the Douglas a Paying Proposition under its Present Policy -- I again say that when Conditions will again be normal, The Douglas should be a Wonderful Proposition as to the road show house statistics show 90% of such houses are burned and it's an awful Gamble to operate one
Page: [2]
I may be wrong in my Views but am giving you my opinion and you can take it for what it is Worth
if The Douglas Can be Purchased at a reasonable figure and to be operated as at Present and some arrangement can be made that you and Luckie can handle it independently together I beleave [believe] a success can be made out of it and if my endorsement will be of any Value to help the deal -- I am Perfectly Willing to endorse any Paper that you may give to Purchase same from the Present Stockholders.
With Kindness regards to Your Wife & Kiddies from Mrs Joel & Myself
Sincerly [Sincerely] Yours --
[Signed] L. D. Joel.]