Date (happened)
- 1955 (doubtful)Clipping-curation pass 2026-08-17 (agent conf=low): media:743
- 7 July 1951clipping masthead reads 'Los Angeles Times, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 19..' (year digits faint in this scan, confirmed legible on the second scan, node 4198/media 802)
Persons
This is a distinct LA Times profile (by Beronius) from the one already on site as #972 ('quoted in 1951 Los Angeles Times interview') — different byline, and the 1951 event is clearly a separate earlier piece. The archive already treats 'quoted/profiled in [newspaper]' as a valid life_event category
Derived from dated newspaper clipping(s): media:743. Curated 2026-08-17 against the existing event set; not independently re-verified against a primary source.
The clipping (byline George L. Beronius, LA Times Religion Editor) states Neville was born on the island of Barbados, did not become a US citizen until World War II (during which he served in the Army for a time), has eight brothers and one sister, and that his 27-year-old son is a college student in New York while his wife and 9-year-old daughter are with him in Los Angeles -- the daughter's age is consistent with the corpus's existing 1942 birth date for Victoria/Vicki (events 819, 821, 822). The page-3 continuation adds: Neville began teaching his ideas about life and creation roughly 11 years before this 1951 piece (c. 1940, consistent with the corpus's 1938 New York lecture-start date); before adopting the stage name 'Neville' he had a career mostly in ballroom dancing, some ballet; and his Los Angeles stay is part of a two-month vacation from his New York lecture series, during which he is filling in for Dr. Frederick Bailes' Science of Mind service at the Fox Wilshire Theater and also lecturing at the Wilshire-Ebell Theater and the Embassy Auditorium. This scan adds a legible detail the earlier one garbled: the reporter notes that 'today at 46, he still retains the youthful physique and casual ease of the dancer' -- an age consistent with the corpus's existing 1905-02-19 birth date.