Letter: Macon, Georgia to Oscar Micheaux, Chicago, Illinois, 1927 July 8 Stein, Ben Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.) Micheaux Film Corporation Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951 Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932. The Conjure woman African Americans in the motion picture industry African Americans in motion pictures Race in motion pictures Feature films--United States Motion picture theaters--Georgia--Macon Film posters--Georgia Advertising--Motion pictures--Georgia--Macon Commercial agents--New York Conjure woman (Motion picture : 1926) File copy of a letter (probably from Ben Stein, owner and manager of the Douglass Theatre from 1927 to 1929) to Oscar Micheaux, seminal African American film director, producer, and president of the Micheaux Film Corporation, dated July 8, 1927, regarding film scheduling. The writer tells Micheaux that The Conjure Woman arrived on time, but that because he was informed that the film would arrive late, he had problems with advertising and failed to draw a large number of people. The writer expresses the opinion that the advertising material would be improved with more pictures of scenes on the advertising. The writer concludes that the picture was well-received and mentions that he sent it to New York City. The Conjure Woman, released in 1926, starred Evelyn Preer and Percy Verwayen and was based on Charles Chesnutt's novel of the same name. Document ID: dbr023. 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. [Athens, Ga.] : Digital Library of Georgia Middle Georgia Archives 2005 Letters (correspondence) Text http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr023 image/jpeg text/html [1] p. Manuscript held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records, 1906-1967, box 19, folder 172, document 21. Blues, Black vaudeville, and the silver screen, 1912-1930s (Digital Library of Georgia) GAGAL 1927-07-08 Macon (Ga.) Bibb County (Ga.) Please consult the Middle Georgia Archives re: reproduction and usage. 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.