Amerique and Neville at the Aldine Theatre, Wilmington, DE (Variety, Emil Jannings/Lya de Putti), week closing Wednesday 11 August 1926

The Aldine (Vaudeville) Theatre, Wilmington, DE (Market St near 8th St) — closing-day ('LAST DAY') newspaper ad for the film 'Variety' (1925, Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti), with Amerique and Neville and Leyland and Keller on the accompanying stage bill, Aug 11, 1926.

Date (happened)

11 August 1926

unresolved

11 August 1926 estimated · probable · preferred

Source Amerique & Neville Goddard (Vaudeville) - Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 22media:481/493, 'ALDINE. LAST DAY FOR VARIETY...Presentations AMERIQUE and NEVILLE International Dancers LEYLAND and KELLER Harmony Singers'. External authority: Cool Wisdom Books' published career chronology of Amerique and Neville (coolwisdombooks.com/neville-goddard-research-neville-amerique-broadway-shows-and-theaters/) lists 'Wilmington, Delaware (Aldine) — Aug 11' under 1926, the only Aldine date on record for this pair; the Aldine referenced there is the Aldine (Vaudeville) Theatre, Market St near 8th, Wilmington DE (confirmed via Library of Congress / Cinema Treasures).

Why This clipping does not itself print a numeric date; the day-level precision comes from the external Cool Wisdom Books chronology, cross-checked against the film's documented US release window.

Reasoning 'LAST DAY FOR VARIETY' fixes this ad to the closing day of the film's run at this Aldine. The film 'Variety' (1925, dir. E.A. Dupont) opened in the US at New York's Rialto June 27, 1926 and went into wider US release Nov 27, 1926 (Wikipedia); an Aug 11, 1926 Wilmington, DE playdate falls squarely in the intervening roadshow window, consistent with Cool Wisdom Books' own compiled date for this specific Aldine engagement.
c. 1926 estimated · possible

Source Amerique & Neville Goddard (Vaudeville) - Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 15media:474, 'GREATER MOVIE SEASON...at the Maahey [chain] Theatres ALDINE...Presentations AMERIQUE and NEVILLE International Dancers LEYLAND and KELLER Harmony Singers'. Same exact supporting-bill wording ('Presentations...International Dancers...Harmony Singers') as hist_event 19899's 'LAST DAY FOR VARIETY' Aldine ad and hist_event 19923's Aldine/Emil Jannings-Lya de Putti ad.

Why Weakest-evidenced member of the four-clipping Aldine/Variety cluster (19895, 19899, 19923, 19925); film title not legible on this clip alone.

Reasoning This clip does not itself name the film, so it cannot be dated as precisely as the companion Aldine ads, but the identical Aldine venue, identical dancer pairing and identical stock ad copy ('Presentations...International Dancers...Leyland and Keller...Harmony Singers') strongly suggest it is part of the same 1926 Aldine Theatre (Wilmington, DE) engagement for the film 'Variety', which hist_event 19899 dates to on/about Aug 11, 1926 via Cool Wisdom Books' compiled career chronology.
11 August 1926 estimated · probable

Source Amerique & Neville Goddard (Vaudeville) - Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 69media:528/1323, '[Vari]ety with EMIL JANNINGS LYA DE PUTTI Presentations AMERIQUE and NEVILLE International Dancers LEYLAND and KELLER Harmony Singers'. Same Aldine engagement as hist_event 19899 ('LAST DAY FOR VARIETY'), dated there to Aug 11, 1926 via Cool Wisdom Books' compiled career chronology (coolwisdombooks.com), the only documented Aldine date on record for this pair.

Why Part of the same four-clipping Aldine/Variety cluster as 19895, 19899 and 19925.

Reasoning Identical Aldine venue, identical film ('Variety', naming its stars Jannings and de Putti), and identical dancer bill (Amerique & Neville, Leyland & Keller) as hist_event 19899's clipping — this is a different day's newspaper ad from the same one-week Aldine engagement dated there to on/about Aug 11, 1926.
1926 estimated · doubtful

Source Neville Goddard Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 196

Reasoning Media 1061 is the performance bill itself, and its dating analysis associates the Jannings and De Putti billing with 1926; because that identification is indirect and low-confidence, 1926 is recorded as estimated and doubtful.
11 August 1926 estimated · probable

Source Amerique & Neville Goddard (Vaudeville) - Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 74media:533, 'VARIETY How Many Times Have You Seen It?...Stage Divertissement AMERIQUE LEYLAND and NEVILLE KELLER'. Same Aldine engagement as hist_event 19899 ('LAST DAY FOR VARIETY'), dated there to Aug 11, 1926 via Cool Wisdom Books' compiled career chronology, the only documented Aldine date on record for this pair.

Why Part of the same four-clipping Aldine/Variety cluster as 19895, 19899 and 19923.

Reasoning Names the film 'Variety' directly and the same dancer pairing (Amerique & Neville, Leyland & Keller) as hist_event 19899's clipping, from the same Aldine, Wilmington DE run — a different day's ad copy ('Stage Divertissement' rather than 'Presentations') from the same one-week engagement dated there to on/about Aug 11, 1926.
11 August 1926 estimated · probable

Source weekday "WEDNESDAY"

Reasoning Restates the sound existing claim on 19899 (kept) with weekday added from the 1926 calendar (Aug1=Sun, so Aug11=Wed). The 'LAST DAY FOR VARIETY' ad closes about 3 days after the Rialto's US run ended (A009: ..1926-08-08). (anchors: A009)
~~c. 1929~~ estimated · refuted

Source — Cool Wisdom Books — 1929media:1987 field_clip_date=1929 (qualifier=exact, confidence=doubtful, AI dating pass, conf=low: keyed to the 'Greater Movie Season' promotion). External search confirms an Aldine Theatre (Aldine Vaudeville Theatre) operated in Wilmington, Delaware (Library of Congress dates a facade photo to 1930), matching coolwisdombooks.com's separate 1926 Aldine/Wilmington entry for this duo — but 'Greater Movie Season' was a recurring national exhibitor promotion seen in ads across the late 1920s (a 1928 trailer for it is documented), not a one-off event, so it cannot by itself fix a single year.

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: Wrong year: scan 1987 is the same 'Greater Movie Season' ad as 19895's, part of the 1926 Aldine/Variety week.

Reasoning The clipping is a contemporaneous theater advertisement ('It's Always Cool and Comfortable at the ALDINE... Presentations AMERIQUE and NEVILLE International Dancers, LEYLAND and KELLER Harmony Singers'), so it does date the actual booking, not a later retrospective. But 'Greater Movie Season' recurred as a seasonal promotional tag across several years in the late 1920s, so it narrows the season (late summer) without fixing the year precisely; I am keeping the corpus's own 1929 reading but at doubtful confidence since I could not independently confirm that year over an adjacent one.
~~between September 1926 and February 1927~~ estimated · refuted

Source — Cool Wisdom Books — 1929Superseding my own earlier claim on this event (1929, circa, doubtful, also from media:1987) — that reading relied only on the recurring 'Greater Movie Season' promotional tag. hist_event:20079 (media:2127) and hist_event:20081 (media:2129) are the SAME Aldine booking, both naming the film as 'Variety' (Emil Jannings/Lya de Putti), whose US Rialto exclusive run was 1926-06-27 to ~1926-08-08 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(1925_film); silentsaregolden.com).

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: Excludes 11 Aug 1926, this merged engagement's evidenced closing day; the 'months later' booking assumption fails here.

Reasoning media:1987's own ad text ('GREATER MOVIE SEASON... ALDINE... AMERIQUE and NEVILLE... LEYLAND and KELLER') is, word for word, the same stage bill as two OTHER clippings in this batch (media:2127 and media:2129) which both explicitly name the film playing alongside as 'Variety'. Since 'Variety' is independently dated by its documented US release/run history to summer 1926 with circuit playdates following in the following months, that is a better-grounded date for this SAME engagement than the 1929 guess I made on my first pass through this event, before I had read the other two clippings.

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~~between September 1926 and February 1927~~ estimated · refuted

Source Amerique and Neville — CWB source ephemera [95f3345eb5]media:2129 has no field_clip_date. External: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(1925_film) and silentsaregolden.com confirm 'Variety' opened its exclusive US run at the Rialto Theatre, New York, 1926-06-27, for a 6-week engagement (through ~1926-08-08). A secondary-market circuit house like the Aldine (Wilmington, DE) would typically book a prestige picture some months after that first-run exclusive ended.

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: Scan 2129 is the same article as 19896's; the merged evidence (11 Aug 1926) falls before this window.

Reasoning The clipping is a contemporaneous feature article, not a retrospective: 'Variety...that sensational picture which is now in the course of its presentation at the Aldine Theatre' explicitly places the writing during the Aldine run itself. The film is identified by name and stars (Emil Jannings, the Aldine's own text calls him 'the chief player in Variety'), which anchors the year via the film's documented US release/run history; the exact week within the following autumn-winter window is not recoverable from the OCR.
~~between September 1926 and February 1927~~ estimated · refuted

Source Amerique and Neville — CWB source ephemera [94bc484fa0]media:2144 has no field_clip_date. Its stage-bill text ('Presentations AMERIQUE and NEVILLE International Dancers LEYLAND and KELLER Harmony Singers') is verbatim-identical to hist_event:20057 (media:1987), hist_event:20079 (media:2127) and hist_event:20081 (media:2129), all four being clippings of the SAME Aldine week; the film there was 'Variety' (Emil Jannings/Lya de Putti), US Rialto exclusive run 1926-06-27 to ~1926-08-08, giving the same autumn 1926/winter 1927 window for a circuit playdate.

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: Same 'LAST DAY FOR' ad template as 19899's; merged evidence dates the closing day to 11 Aug 1926.

Reasoning This is a contemporaneous 'LAST DAY' ad for the closing day of a run whose stage bill exactly matches three other clippings in this batch already identified as the same single-week Aldine engagement for the film 'Variety'. It therefore shares that engagement's date evidence rather than providing new evidence of its own (the film's own title is cut off in this scan).
~~between September 1926 and February 1927~~ estimated · refuted

Source Amerique and Neville — CWB source ephemera [a958450958]media:2127 has no field_clip_date. External: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(1925_film) and silentsaregolden.com confirm 'Variety' (Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti) opened its exclusive US run at the Rialto Theatre, New York, 1926-06-27, for a 6-week engagement (through ~1926-08-08); a subsequent booking at a secondary-market house like the Aldine would follow in the following months once the film entered general/circuit release.

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: Same clipping as 19923/20004's ad; merged evidence dates this week to 11 Aug 1926, before this window.

Reasoning The clipping is a contemporaneous theater advertisement naming the film's stars directly ('with EMIL JANNINGS, LYA DE PUTTI ... AMERIQUE and NEVILLE International Dancers LEYLAND and KELLER Harmony Singers'), identifying the film as 'Variety' by its two leads. Since the film's US exclusive run ended in early August 1926, and circuit/neighborhood houses typically booked a prestige picture some months after its first-run engagement, I bound this to autumn 1926 through winter 1927 rather than asserting a specific month.