Billed as 'premier dancers' of the Atlanta Municipal Opera Association, performing Lewis Morton's 'Balloon Ballet' preceding the company's production of 'H.M.S. Pinafore' at the Erlanger Theatre — the fourth production of the company's eight-week 1927 summer season (notice names the Wednesday evening performance, 20 Jul 1927).
Date (happened)
13 July 1927
estimated · probable · preferred
Source
weekday "WEDNESDAY"
Reasoning
Scan 538/1967 prints 'WEDNESDAY EVENIN'' with no year. Anchor A039 places Pinafore as week 4 (Mon-Sat 11-16 Jul 1927) from 9 dated season clippings; Wednesday of that week is 13 July.
1927
estimated · probable
Source
'AMERIQUE AND NEVILLE, PREMIER DANCERS of the Atlanta Municipal Opera association...the Balloon Ballet, which precedes the performance of "H.M.S. Pinafore" at the Erlanger theater this week'
Reasoning
Media 534's AI-dating pass already matched this exact clipping text to the 1927 Atlanta Summer Season's H.M.S. Pinafore production at high confidence; the event carried no date claim yet.
c. 1927
estimated · doubtful
Source
'"H.M.S. PINAFORE" OPENS ON MONDAY...gave delightful performances of "The Pink Lady" and "The Red Mill" and then swung into..."The Blue Paradise"'
Reasoning
The clipping is a continuation ('Continued From First Page') with no date of its own; media 1966's AI-dating pass placed it in the later weeks of the 1927 Atlanta season at low confidence, which this claim matches rather than exceeds.
between June 1927 and August 1927
estimated · possible
Why
Same Erlanger/Municipal Opera 1927 season as hist_event:20045 (Count of Luxemburg) and hist_event:20059 (Erlanger Theater, Atlanta, unspecified show).
Reasoning
The clipping is a contemporaneous lead-up notice, not a retrospective: it previews the upcoming 'Pinafore' bill ('will appear in solo numbers with twenty members of the opera ballet') rather than looking back on it. Its own text recaps the Municipal Opera Association's history — 'The Mikado' as the first production of their first comic-opera season, then 'last season' Pirates of Penzance — which places the CURRENT (Pinafore) season at least third, consistent with 1927 if the first season was c.1925. The clip's own AI-dating confidence is low because no printed date survives in the OCR, so the year is corroborated but not certain, and the specific week within the season is not recoverable from this clip or from any season schedule found by web search.
between 11 July 1927 and 16 July 1927
estimated · probable
Source
weekday "MONDAY"
Reasoning
Scans call this 'this week'; A039's derived season schedule gives week 4 (Pinafore) as Monday-Saturday 11-16 July 1927. (anchors: A039)
20 July 1927
estimated · refuted
Why
pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: computed from a week-1=27 Jun assumption; A039's own dated clippings place week 1 at 20 Jun, one week earlier
Reasoning
The clipping is a contemporaneous notice naming a specific day, 'Wednesday evenin'', for this performance within Pinafore's run week. Placing H.M.S. Pinafore as week 4 of the season (per the CWB-documented order, itself cross-checked against this corpus's own internal evidence at hist_event:20041) and counting from the corroborated 27 Jun 1927 Monday season-opening puts week 4's Monday at 18 Jul 1927 and its Wednesday at 20 Jul 1927.
