Letter: to Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., Macon, Georgia, 1927 Sept. 7 Theatre Owners Booking Association Starr, Milton Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.) Theatre Owners Booking Association Reevin, Sam E. Douglass, Charles Henry, 1870-1940 Stein, Ben Debt--Georgia--Macon Collecting of accounts--Georgia--Macon Debtor and creditor--Georgia--Macon Stock repurchasing--Tennessee--Nashville Theaters--Georgia--Macon File copy of a letter possibly 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 Charles Henry Douglass, Jr., African American entrepreneur and owner of the Douglass Theatre, dated September 7, 1927, regarding a stock settlement with T.O.B.A. The writer responds to a request from Douglass to surrender his three shares of stock in return for a cancellation of commission indebtedness and a cash consideration of $100.00. The writer advises Douglass that he has seen Mr. Reevin, probably Sam E. Reevin, manager and treasurer of T.O.B.A., in Chattanooga and has discussed Douglass' commission account with him. The writer finds Reevin's figures of $264.70 to be correct and wants to settle Douglass' stock on the basis of these figures. The writer conveys that T.O.B.A. will pay Douglass $35.30 cash when Douglass surrenders his stock. The writer offers Douglass a receipt for his commission indebtedness and $50.00 cash in the interest of settling the matter. The writer advises that, should Douglass accept the compromise, he has already arranged with Mr. Stein, probably Ben Stein, owner and manager of the Douglass Theatre from 1927 to 1929, to take over Douglass' stock, pay Douglass $50.00, and pay T.O.B.A. the $350.00 balance due. The writer asserts that the offer is fair and asks Douglass to reply. Document ID: dbr068. 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:dbr068 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 22. Blues, Black vaudeville, and the silver screen, 1912-1930s (Digital Library of Georgia) GAGAL 1927-09-07 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.