Other names
Janette Johnson
Summary

Amerique, also identified as Janette Johnson, was the daughter of Susan Kirby Johnson and Marcus Morton Johnson and partnered Neville Goddard in dance performances including the Atlanta Municipal Opera engagement.

Events involving this person

c. 1925 (probable)
London engagement at Ciro's, 1925, as part of a European tour that also took Amerique and Neville to the Winter Garden (Berlin) and the Ambassador (Paris); they performed a 'jewel dance' for the Princ
1925 (probable)
Review, 'Dancing Artists of Very High Class at Keith State Theatre' — Amerique and Neville on the vaudeville bill alongside the film 'Lord Jim' (Paramount, 1925, dir.
15 October 1925
Evening News (London), 15 October 1925, p.6: a society 'About Bobbed Hair' column describing Amerique and Neville dancing a tango to 'El Choclo' among 'the new exhibition dancers' — falls within their
1926 (probable)

After their London engagement, Neville and Amerique returned to the US and worked at prominent New York nightclubs, where an Atlanta opera manager named Haase saw their act.

c. June 1927

Neville and Amerique performed a fourteen-number, eight-week engagement for the Atlanta Municipal Opera Association at the Erlanger Theater over the summer of 1927, dancing in productions including

20 June 1927 (probable)
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
between 27 June 1927 and 2 July 1927 (possible)
Contemporaneous review ('The Red Mill Entrances Big Audience at Erlanger') of the Atlanta Municipal Opera's 1927 production of The Red Mill, the second of the season's eight weekly productions; Ameriq
6 October 1927

The operetta "My Princess" opened October 6, 1927 at the Shubert Theatre, with Amerique and Neville performing a tango in Act Two; it closed October 22 after 20 performances.

c. 1 February 1928 (probable)
A Variety notice reports that the vaudeville dancers Amerique and Neville were temporarily out of vaudeville while fulfilling a four-week engagement at Club Lido, Boston, booked by John Daley of the A
April 1928
Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (21 April 1928) reviews the Granada Theatre, Chicago prologue accompanying Gilda Gray's United Artists picture: 'the team of Amerique and Neville enters to d
June 1928
Frank Aston's Cincinnati Post review (18 June 1928) of Gilda Gray's stage show at the Albee names 'the team, Amerique and Neville' as part of her own dancing revue, alongside 'eight sprightly gazelles
17 June 1928 (probable)
Frank Aston's Cincinnati Post review (18 June 1928) of Gilda Gray's stage show at the Albee names 'the team, Amerique and Neville' as part of her own dancing revue, alongside 'eight sprightly gazelles
between 30 December 1928 and 31 December 1928 (probable)
Stage-and-screen bill at the Fox Theatre, Brooklyn: feature film "Marriage by Contract" (Tiffany Pictures, dir.
c. December 1929 (probable)
External check: "The Careless Age" (First National-Vitaphone, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young and Carmel Myers) had a national release date of 1929-09-15, consistent with the existing De
30 December 1930 (probable)

"Broadway Personalities," billed alongside Harry Richman and Dorrah Minevitch, played the Majestic Theatre in Brooklyn per a December 30, 1930 clipping.

27 January 1931 (possible)

A Yonkers Herald Statesman clipping dated January 27, 1931 lists Neville and Amerique's act alongside the film "Outward Bound."
Place: Yonkers, New York

July 1932 (probable)

Neville and Amerique appeared on a vaudeville bill at the RKO Prospect Theatre in Brooklyn in July 1932.

Place: RKO Prospect, Brooklyn

Person: Neville Goddard

1955 (possible)
A syndicated Jimmie Fidler 'Hollywood' gossip column profiles Neville Goddard as an artist who believes in 'the school of positive thinking', tracing his two careers: first as a dancer who starred on