African American stage magician; performed across the United States, sold herbal medicines, and published a monthly magazine from his Harlem headquarters. In the preface to his 'Secrets of Magic, Mystery, and Legerdemain' he claimed to have been born in Africa and to have travelled in Egypt, India, China, France and England learning 'mystical secrets'; a contemporary (Ed Kay of Dorene Publishing) doubted the African-birth claim, noting he spoke with no foreign accent. CWB collected this as comparative background for the pattern of Black performers claiming exotic/African origins, alongside the Abdullah/Guillaume research; no direct connection to Neville is stated in this source.