Letter: Nashville, Tennessee to Ben Stein, Macon, Georgia, 1927 Sept. 7 Starr, Milton Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.) Reevin, Sam E. Stein, Ben Theatre Owners Booking Association Liberty Film Company (Atlanta, Ga.) Lemons, Eddie Maynard, Ken, 1895-1973 Contracts for work and labor--Georgia--Macon Negotiation--Georgia--Macon Theaters--Georgia--Macon Entertainment events--Georgia--Macon Commercial agents--Tennessee--Nashville African American actors--Employment--Georgia--Macon African American musicians--Employment--Georgia--Macon Motion picture theaters--Georgia--Macon Feature films--United States Dashing Dinah (Musical show : 1927) Letter from Milton Starr, president of Theatre Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.), a Tennessee-based booking agency from 1920 to the 1930s for African American vaudeville acts, to Ben Stein, owner and manager of the Douglass Theatre from 1927 to 1929, dated September 7, 1927, regarding business relations and possible shows for the Douglass Theatre. Starr notes that he is enclosing a letter (not included with this document) sent to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., African American entrepreneur and owner of the Douglass Theatre, that he hopes will meet with Stein's approval. He reminds Stein about available Ken Maynard films and advises Stein how to secure them. Maynard was a white, Western star during the 1920s and 1930s and is credited with introducing the "singing cowboy" to the Western genre. Starr expresses his hope that Stein will keep in mind all that Starr had to say while in Macon and assures Stein that he is at his service. He conveys that the Lemons Company, a reference to Eddie Lemons' Dashing Dinah show, is holding out for a one thousand dollar guarantee for Macon (see dbr056 and dbr057 of the Douglass Theatre Web site), and that Sam E. Reevin, manager and treasurer of Theatre Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.), has made Starr responsible for securing better terms. Starr mentions that he is wiring the Lemons company, and that Reevin will communicate the result to Stein. Dashing Dinah, produced by Lemons, featured Lemons, Homer Hubbard, Rogers and Rogers, Leroy Phillips, Charles Barry, Isadore Price, Willie Taylor, Jack "Ginger" Wiggins, Christina Gray, and String Beans Price. Document ID: dbr067. 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:dbr067 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 213, document 21. Blues, Black vaudeville, and the silver screen, 1912-1930s (Digital Library of Georgia) GAGAL 1927-09-07 Macon (Ga.) Bibb County (Ga.) Atlanta (Ga.) Fulton 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.