During the seventh week of the 1927 Atlanta summer season, in Arthur Hammerstein's The Wildflower, Neville and Amerique's tarantella and tango numbers so thrilled the audience that they b
between 1927 and 1930
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Generic career-retrospective mention of Neville's Broadway dancing career (c.1953 Jimmie Fidler column); no specific production named.
A 'Crystal Bath' promotional gravure-section piece quoting Amerique and Neville on using the product 'after performances', describing them as appearing in light opera (venue/production not legible).
Preview announcing that Amerique and Neville, 'the graceful dancers who have scored such a hit here in the other operas', will introduce special dances into the Atlanta Municipal Opera Association's p
between 1927 and 1930
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A mid-1950s 'Views of Hollywood' retrospective column recalls that Neville 'starred on Broadway' earlier in his career, without naming a production; his only documented Broadway credits run 1927 ('My
In 1927, in his hotel room, Neville felt a peculiar sensation begin in his head; it intensified and he found himself catapulted out of the body and set down on a beach among strangers.
As a boy he was savagely caned by a schoolteacher for quoting a Bible verse as "take up your bed" instead of "take up your couch" and for not producing the family Bible, which his brother Cecil had; t
between June 1927 and September 1927
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between June 1927 and August 1927
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Gilbert & Sullivan's "H.M.S.
Atlanta Municipal Opera manager Haase reports signing Amerique and Neville after seeing 'several star dancing teams' in New York and judging them 'unquestionably the best I saw'.
between June 1927 and August 1927
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Sigmund Romberg's operetta "The Blue Paradise", performed by the Atlanta Municipal Opera Association during its 1927 summer season at the Erlanger Theatre.
between June 1927 and September 1927
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Rotogravure pictorial-section feature (Crystal Baths massage endorsement) describing Amerique and Neville as 'now appearing at the Erlanger theater during the season of light opera' — consistent with
Frank Daniel's preview of the Atlanta Municipal Opera Association's Red Mill (Victor Herbert, first produced 1906), 'the second weekly production of its third summer season'.
Atlanta Journal human-interest feature, "Opera Dancer Introduces Her Family", published during the Atlanta Municipal Opera Association's 1927 season at the Erlanger Theatre, where Amerique and Neville
between June 1927 and August 1927
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Franz Lehár's operetta "The Count of Luxemburg", performed during the Atlanta Municipal/Erlanger summer stock season of 1927 (an ~8-week season from late June including The Pink Lady, The Red Mill, Th
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 20 June 1927 and 13 August 1927
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The Atlanta Journal feature 'Opera Dancer Introduces Her Family': Amerique (off-stage, Janette Johnson) shown with her mother Susan Kirby Johnson and their dog Snuff, and Neville; Amerique's father Ma
between 20 June 1927 and 13 August 1927
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The Atlanta Journal feature 'Opera Dancer Introduces Her Family', on Amerique (Janette Johnson) and her family, published during the Atlanta Municipal Opera's 1927 Erlanger season.
Newspaper photo caption (Sunday, June 19, 1927) previewing Amerique and Neville's Monday opening at the Erlanger Theatre, Atlanta — the start of the Atlanta Municipal Opera's 1927 summer season.
between 27 June 1927 and 2 July 1927
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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
between 27 June 1927 and 21 August 1927
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Generic promotional mention (a Crystal Bath alcohol-massage endorsement ad, duplicated across three separate gallery scans) describing Amerique and Neville as 'one of the most famous dancing teams' th