Letter: Washington D.C. to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., Macon, Georgia, 1926 Feb. 15 Dudley, Sherman H., ca. 1870-1940 Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.) Theatre Owners Booking Association Douglass, Charles Henry, 1870-1940 Contracts for work and labor--Georgia--Macon Negotiation--Georgia--Macon Theaters--Georgia--Macon Vaudeville--Georgia--Macon Entertainment events--Georgia--Macon Commercial agents--Tennessee--Nashville African American actors--Employment--Georgia--Macon African American actresses--Employment--Georgia--Macon African American musicians--Employment--Georgia--Macon 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 Race films--United States Easy money (Motion picture : 1922) Bamville Dandies (Musical show : 1926) Letter from Sherman H. Dudley, African American vaudevillian, actor in the 1922 film Easy Money and later president of the white-owned, Philadelphia-based Colored Players Film Corporation, to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., African American entrepreneur and owner of the Douglass Theatre, dated February 15, 1926, regarding his plans to make personal appearances to promote the film Easy Money. Dudley informs Douglass that he will be promoting his film with personal appearances for a limited time and reminds Douglass of the large amount of business that he played to before his tour. He explains that he presents a musical show with eighteen people, adding that he carries his own agent and advertises heavily. Dudley proposes to split the profits fifty-fifty, explaining that he does not want Douglass to pay him or guarantee him and lose money. He reminds Douglass that while this act is not his big show, Ebony Follies, it is his personal appearance with the film Easy Money and a "red hot company." He asks Douglass to reply at once (see dbr046 of the Douglass Theatre Web site to view the circular for the film). Easy Money, released in 1921, was one of only two comedies released by REOL Productions Corporation, a white-owned, New York City based film company that released ten films for African Americans from 1920 to 1924. Document ID: dbr066. 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:dbr066 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 21A, folder 212, document 3. Blues, Black vaudeville, and the silver screen, 1912-1930s (Digital Library of Georgia) GAGAL 1926-02-15 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.