Date (happened)
- c. 1929 (doubtful)media: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.
- between September 1926 and February 1927 (possible)Superseding 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).
Persons
Stage bill during a 'Greater Movie Season' promotional week at the Aldine (a Warner Bros. vaudeville-and-film house, likely the Aldine Vaudeville Theatre, Wilmington, Delaware): Amerique and Neville billed as "International Dancers" alongside Leyland and Keller, "Harmony Singers".
CORRECTION: this 'Greater Movie Season' ad is the same single-week Aldine engagement as hist_event:20079 and hist_event:20081 — the film is Emil Jannings/Lya de Putti's "Variety" (US premiere 1926-06-27), placing this booking in autumn 1926/winter 1927, not 1929 as first estimated. See merge proposal.