Amerique and Neville at the Erlanger Theatre, Atlanta (The Pink Lady, the season's opening production), week of 20–25 June 1927

The Atlanta Municipal Opera Association's premiere of 'The Pink Lady', Monday, June 20, 1927 — the opening production of the association's third summer season (eight weeks, sixty-four performances) at the Erlanger Theatre. Amerique and Neville, 'internationally known dancing team, recently of Ciro's in Paris,' appeared in special numbers throughout the season.

Date (happened)

20 June 1927

unresolved

20 June 1927 estimated · probable · preferred

Source Amerique & Neville Goddard (Vaudeville) - Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 3media:462, OCR photo caption dated Sunday [J]une 19 1927 ('AMERIQUE AND NEVILLE, specialty dancers ... Monday ... at the Erlanger'); June 19, 1927 is independently confirmed a Sunday.

Why Companion clipping to hist_event 19893; both appear to document the same Sunday preview of the same Monday premiere.

Reasoning The clipping is a contemporaneous newspaper photo caption printed the day before the engagement opens, naming the opening day as 'Monday' following a Sunday, June 19, 1927 dateline; the only Monday that fits is June 20, 1927 — the day the Atlanta Municipal Opera's 1927 summer season opened at the Erlanger with 'The Pink Lady' (see hist_event 19893's clipping, media:471).
20 June 1927 estimated · probable

Source Amerique & Neville Goddard (Vaudeville) - Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 12media:471, 'Premier of The Pink Lady Monday...THE ATLANTA MUNICIPAL OPERA ASSOCIATION WILL PRESENT THE PINK LADY at the Erlanger theater Monday evening as the first performance of sixty-four to be given during the next eight weeks as Atlanta's third summer season'. Corroborating: hist_event 19889's clipping (media:462) carries a legible Sunday, June 19, 1927 dateline previewing the same 'Monday' opening.

Why Proposed survivor of a merge with hist_event 19889, which documents the same Sunday preview spread with a less legible clipping.

Reasoning The clipping is a contemporaneous preview article stating the premiere is 'Monday evening', naming this the first of 64 performances over the coming eight weeks (the third annual summer season). It does not itself print a numeric date, but a companion clipping (hist_event 19889, media:462) is dated Sunday, June 19, 1927 and previews the same Monday opening; the only Monday that fits is June 20, 1927.
June 1927 stated

Source R-DANCE clipping mid 559 — printed: "next week"

Reasoning Date components as printed on clipping mid 559; nothing inferred and no component supplied that the page does not carry.
June 1927 estimated · possible

Source 'They will appear in fourteen numbers, the first of which will be presented during the engagement of "The Pink Lady," the first production of this summer's season'

Reasoning The clipping ties Amerique and Neville's Atlanta debut to the season-opening Pink Lady production, which the corpus (and media 1973's own AI-dating note) already places in June 1927.
between 20 June 1927 and 25 June 1927 estimated · probable

Source weekday "MONDAY"

Reasoning Anchor A039 (derived from this packet's own clippings) places Pink Lady as week 1, Monday-Saturday; the Monday opening is independently confirmed by scans 462 and 471.

Place

Erlanger Theatre, Atlanta

Persons

Neville Goddard

Amerique

Series / group

Amerique and Neville's season with the Atlanta Municipal Opera at the Erlanger Theatre, Atlanta, 20 June – 13 August 1927

Sources

Source

Amerique & Neville Goddard (Vaudeville) - Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 12 (R-DANCE clipping evidence)
— Cool Wisdom Books — 1927 (R-DANCE clipping evidence)
Amerique & Neville Goddard (Vaudeville) - Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 3 (R-DANCE clipping evidence)
Amerique & Neville Goddard (Vaudeville) - Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 100 (R-DANCE clipping evidence)
— Cool Wisdom Books — 1927 (R-DANCE clipping evidence)

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