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Letter: Jacksonville, Florida to Ben Stein, Macon, Georgia, 1927 Sept. 23

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Seligman, Mort

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Letter from Mort Seligman, of the New Frolic Theatre in Jacksonville, Florida, to Ben Stein, owner and manager of the Douglass Theatre, dated September 23, 1927, regarding the rental cost of the film The Millionaire. Seligman tells Stein he has received a letter from the Micheaux Film Corporation that reports that Stein is booked with The Millionaire. He asks for confirmation and for the rental price Stein is paying. The Millionaire, released in 1927, starred Grace Smith, J. Lawrence Criner, Lionel Monagas, Cleo Desmond, Samuel T. Jacks, E. G. Tatum, and Chicago Defender editor Robert S. Abbott.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.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. African Americans In Motion Pictures
  3. African Americans In The Motion Picture Industry
  4. Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.)
  5. Feature Films
  6. Florida
  7. Georgia
  8. Jacksonville
  9. Macon
  10. Micheaux Film Corporation
  11. Millionaire (Motion Picture : 1927)
  12. Motion Picture Theaters
  13. Negotiation
  14. New Frolic Theatre (Jacksonville, Fla.)
  15. Race Films
  16. Race In Motion Pictures
  17. Stein, Ben
  18. United States

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