Letter, New York, New York, to Bessie Beamer, 1923 March 27

Sunday 27 March 1923 33 WEST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. Dear Mrs. Beamer It is [?] come [?day], & write you abt [Hag?ls] wonderful luck (no [?anal]) & explain all abt engagement I to advantageous. She has written you that she has an engagement in [??tr] Dr. Barry Pictures items Mr. Haggins is putting on. [?], she has a solo & two appearances as thro Madonna Mrs. Loftins who is the Dr. Barry, is the only other woman [?] is & this most important, of course so she is very wonderful & an old star But Hazel is thro young stars & it is almost more than she could expect [?] in such a company & in such a beautiful thing. Mrs. Loftis is a [?ry] respectable woman & she & her husband are in [?t??] show. Her husband [?] in she is very nice to Hazel & they like each other, & she says she [?] look out for Hazel in every way. Mr. Haggins says he knows she will because she is that kind how abt the [sh??]. It is a Tableau with actions in so just or 2 33 WEST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. nine parts Hazel will come down out of its picture & do her solo Mr. [?] Madonnas are only a vision in a picture as [?t?] Dr. Barry prays [?h?r]. It is of course a Revolution scenario & [o??y] dramatic & beautiful Hazels costume from its drawing, with [?] [pr?f??tly] [lav??] & I know [?] how she will look in it. An [?] she is [?] got a hundred a [??k] which is [sta?s] salary after she leaves New York & the environs. The best of it all is, how [?] [?] they ever going to Atlanta for a week & dear Mrs. Beamer we [?] want you to [?] [?] turn & [?] here he [w??] your while she is there you will have to let me [?] [Hag?l] thro money for it so she will [la??] to get ahead of her salary before she came [?] any money so she found out [th??s] its fare from Thomasville to Atlanta was twelve dollars & so [?] 20 will cover the trips & I suppose you can both stay with 3 some friends there. Then the company goes to [*33 WEST SIXTY-SEVENTH STREET NEW YORK, N. Y.*] Montgomery & then to New Orleans. She will stay with [?[ Dick at New Orleans Then out to Los Angeles & Stay with her grandmother then up to San Francisco, where I have some friends ready for her & then she will leave the company & come right [?] to no again I have [?een] against the trips until [?] one, which comes in exactly the right way with a chaperone & friends at every city. Really Mrs. Beamer no girl ever had such an opportunity, & such a start in [?] profession, & I for one, am perfectly overcome by it. Mr. Keith & I have planned [?] gory detail of it safe & right for her [?] Haggin [p?rpo??s] arranged where [h??] go in this company she is so looked up to & respected & liked & have position is so different from what I had feared [?] I feel very well satisfied & I want you & the [A??ts] to understand all about it so that you will feel 4 so [t??]. Mr. Haggin told me also in a burst of confidence, one day, that I need never worry abt Hazel & the men she met in the profession. That they would never [f??t??] her with unwelcome [?tt??tio?s] as she was not the type that attracted that sort of thing she would be only liked & respected & indeed, it looks very like that, from the way she is treated [?] where. [?] [?] Mrs. Beamer just thank God you have such a fine little girl & [?] by her & help her to make the very best of her chance for her foot is now on the ladder & it wont be long before she is drinking [?] I hope & expect. Please [?] her you are not afraid of the trip [?] [?] really [?] for her to have the experience & some day when she makes more she can take you along always. She is so excited as the [?der?] of [se??y] you at Atlanta & the thought of her grandmother she is at Atlantic City over Sunday [?] Valerie & her Mother for a rest before rehearsals this coming week much [C??all] [Dor?w?] Keith New York, N.Y. Sta Apr 23 6 - PM 1924 United States Postage 2 cents for Mrs. Beamer Remington Cir. Thomasville Georgia (4

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