between 1925 and 1930
(possible)
Career-retrospective column (c.1953) combines the Broadway and old-Hippodrome mentions in one clause; no specific production or exact date is given by either surviving clipping of this text (media:124
Visiting London in 1925, Neville met an old Scotsman who told him that his attitude of mind determined his life — that he need not be enslaved by life but could control his future by his present think
Neville and his dance partner Amerique were a featured attraction at Ciro's in London in 1925, performing a 'jewel dance' for the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York.
Broome recounts Neville's dancing career, marriage, England trip, and its end
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Broome's narration of Neville's dancing career: joining an established dancer, marrying and fathering a son, sailing for England in 1925 where he met psychical research, returning to America in 1926, and losing his dancing career when the depression closed the theaters in 1929.
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between 19 February 1925 and 19 February 1926
(probable)
Neville recounts that he became passionately committed to reading at the age of twenty, having cared for nothing but sports before then; he was in London when a Mr.
between 28 September 1925 and 24 October 1925
(probable)
A magazine 'New Dancers' notice on Amerique and Neville's Ciro's, London engagement, referencing Anna Pavlova's concurrent Covent Garden season (28 Sep-24 Oct 1925) and noting Amerique's rendition of
2 October 1925
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A London gossip column's Christmas-party note ('Not Such a Sad Business', on dancing at the Savoy) closes: 'Two dancers named Amerique and Neville, who have made an enormous hit in America, may shortl
14 October 1925
(probable)
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
between 15 November 1925 and February 1926
(possible)
Vaudeville-and-film bill at a Keith "State Theatre": Amerique and Neville billed as "the big star attraction", with pianist Nelson Waring; a new bill and new picture (Paramount's "Lord Jim", dir.
A Variety magazine notice (9 December 1925, page 7) reports that Amerique and Neville, billed as 'American phenomenal dancers', were then appearing at Ciro's Club in London, where they had 'scored sen
between 1926 and 1928
(possible)
Bill-mate mention: Gilda Gray brought her 'entire company' — Amerique and Neville among its dance specialty acts — to an unidentified Orpheum-circuit theatre for a Monday opening; city and exact week
'Greater Movie Season' newspaper ad for the Aldine Theatre, Wilmington, DE, billing Amerique and Neville with Leyland and Keller — the same supporting bill as the Aldine's 1926 run of the film 'Variet
Vaudeville dance specialty on a Stanley Theatres circuit bill with the Leland and Keller Harmony Singers, likely accompanying the 1926 US (Paramount) release of the German film 'Variety' (Varieté), st
His first drink was no honey to him but he acquired the taste and enjoys a drink while keeping his faculties; at twenty-one or twenty-two he tried for six months to acquire a taste for smoking, it mad
In 1926, aged twenty-one, staying as the manager's guest at a club in Larchmont, New York on a Saturday night, he went to bed early reading a book, fell into a deep trance for ten or twelve hours, and
Neville, then a 21-year-old vaudeville dancer, attended medium Arthur Ford's séance circle at Ford's Riverside Drive home and later exposed phosphorus-faked luminous effects.
Israel Regardie's 1945 biography states that in his early twenties Neville's extreme Rosicrucian asceticism (fasting, vegetarianism, continence) caused fainting fits and nervous breakdown
Matthew Bentley dies of malaria in India
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In 1925, when Neville was twenty and living for four months in London, he urged his friend Matthew Bentley, who was his own age, to take an interest in the philosophical outlook his own father -- then fifty-eight, a retired mining engineer -- had come to embrace. Bentley refused, saying he wanted to make his fortune first. After Neville returned to New York, Bentley went to India in the service of a tea company; a few months later he contracted malaria there and died, having put off any spiritual interest until money came first.
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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.
In 1926 his mother visited him in New York City, was horrified that his two-year-old son was unbaptized, and he arranged an Episcopal baptism to satisfy her.