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Letter: Valdosta, Georgia to Ben Stein, Macon, Georgia, 1928 Feb. 18

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Stein, Luke

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Letter from Luke Stein, owner and manager of the Palace Theatre in Valdosta, Georgia, to his brother Ben Stein, owner and manager of the Douglass Theatre, dated February 18, 1928, addressing a problem with showing a film at the Douglass Theatre. Luke relates that he read in the paper about the trouble Ben had with the film, probably Is Your Daughter Safe?. He advises Ben to convince the mayor and other officials to see the picture in order to capitalize on the publicity that he received. Luke suggests that if the mayor will not listen, Ben should speak with Mr. Johnson or Jenkins of the Macon Telegraph or News for help from the newspaper. He adds that Ben should tell the man that the editor of the Valdosta Times sent him. Luke judges from what was said in the newspaper article that the mayor must have been angry, and hopes that his brother came out all right. In a handwritten postscript, Luke mentions that he has enclosed the Metro contract (not included with this document) and a contract for several films (not included with this document) that he considers to be a good purchase. The February 17, 1928 Macon Telegraph reported that both the Douglass Theatre and Grand Theatre, the theater for Macon's white citizenry, were prevented from showing Is Your Daughter Safe? because of its condemnation as indecent by the Macon Better Film committee. Police closed the Douglass under orders of Mayor Luther Williams. The 1927 Chadwick Pictures film...
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Keywords

  1. Censorship
  2. Contracts For Work And Labor
  3. Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)
  4. Feature Films
  5. Georgia
  6. Georgia Negotiation
  7. Is Your Daughter Safe? (Motion Picture : 1927)
  8. Macon
  9. Motion Picture Theaters
  10. Motion Pictures
  11. Newspapers
  12. Palace Theatre (Valdosta, Ga.)
  13. Stein, Ben
  14. Valdosta

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