Document: dbr025 [view transcript]
Letter: [Macon, Georgia?] to Oscar Micheaux, Chicago, Illinois, 1927 Sept. 20author: Smith, William M., theater manager extent: [1] p. date: September 20, 1927 summary: File copy of a letter (possibly from William M. Smith, manager of the Douglass Theatre) to Oscar Micheaux, president of the Micheaux Film Corporation, dated September 20, 1927, negotiating terms for showing a film. The letter refers to rental of The Millionaire (see [dbr027], [dbr028], and [dbr029] of the Douglass Theatre Web site). The writer explains that it will be impossible for him to play Micheaux's picture on percentage because they are playing vaudeville. He offers Micheaux seventy-five dollars for two days, mentioning that business is off. The Millionaire, released in 1927, starred Grace Smith, J. Lawrence Criner, Lionel Monagas, Cleo Desmond, Samuel T. Jacks, E. G. Tatum, and Chicago Defender editor Robert S. Abbott. repository: Middle Georgia Archives collection: Charles Henry Douglass business records box: 19 folder: 173 item: 5 subjects: Macon (Ga.) Page: [1] [view image] Sept. [September] 20th-27. Mr. Oscar Micheaux, Chicago, Ill [Illinois], Dear Sir: Your letter received and contract but it will be imposible [impossible] to play your picture on percentage as we are playing vaudeville, the best that I could offer you would be $75.00 for two days, I am signing contract to that effect and you can advise me so I can order paper from you at once, hoping that this will be alright [all right] as business is off and I am taking a great chance.
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