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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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
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.
Neville's marriage to Mildred ended, and she and their son departed to the West Indies.
Place: West Indies
Person: Neville Goddard
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.
9 January 1926
(probable)
A newspaper listing places Neville and Amerique performing at the Keith State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey on January 9, 1926.
16 January 1926
(possible)
A Publix touring stage-show unit (Publix Singers, Publix Corps de Ballet, Royal Accordion Band), Buffalo, NY, Jan 16 1926: six specialty dancers including Amerique and Neville (billed here as 'Spanish
between 19 February 1926 and 18 February 1928
(probable)
Neville recounts that in the late 1920s, when he was not more than twenty-one or twenty-two, he received his command - the words 'Time to act' and 'Down with the bluebloods' - which he says has never
A theater program or newspaper ad billing Neville, performing with a partner as 'The International Dancers', on the stage alongside a screening of Douglas Fairbanks' film 'The Black Pirate', advertise
between July 1926 and June 1927
(possible)
11 August 1926
(probable)
Aldine Theatre, Wilmington DE, newspaper ad for the film 'Variety' (Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti), with Amerique and Neville and Leyland and Keller on the stage bill — the same Aug 1926 engagement as h
11 August 1926
(probable)
Aldine Theatre, Wilmington DE, newspaper ad for the film 'Variety' ('How Many Times Have You Seen It?'), with Amerique and Neville and Leyland and Keller on the stage bill — the same Aug 1926 engageme
11 August 1926
(probable)
The Aldine (Vaudeville) Theatre, Wilmington, DE (Market St near 8th St) — closing-day ('LAST DAY') newspaper ad for the film 'Variety' (1925, Emil Jannings, Lya de Putti), with Amerique and Neville an
between September 1926 and December 1927
(possible)
Vaudeville dance-act booking at the Palace Theatre, New York; per the same trade item (Zit's Theatrical Weekly), reviewers compared Neville's looks and dancing favorably to the late Rudolph Valentino.
between September 1926 and February 1927
(possible)
Stage-and-screen bill at the Aldine Theatre: Emil Jannings and Lya de Putti's German film "Variety" (US premiere Rialto Theatre, New York, 1926-06-27), with a stage bill of Amerique and Neville ("Inte
between September 1926 and February 1927
(possible)
Feature article, "European Star Seen in Film at Aldine": Emil Jannings and Lya de Putti's German film "Variety" (US premiere Rialto Theatre, New York, 1926-06-27) "now in the course of its presentatio
between September 1926 and February 1927
(possible)
"Last day" closing advertisement for the same Aldine Theatre stage bill as hist_event:20057, hist_event:20079 and hist_event:20081: Amerique and Neville ("International Dancers") and Leyland and Kelle
between September 1926 and December 1927
(possible)
Vaudeville dance-act booking at Loew's Rochester Theatre; the same trade item notes the act had played the Palace Theatre, New York (hist_event:20037) 'several weeks' earlier, and that three New York
c. October 1926
(probable)
Vaudeville bill at Loew's Rochester Theatre, Rochester, NY, circa October 1926 — the same trade item notes Amerique and Neville had played the Palace Theatre, New York City, several weeks earlier, and
31 December 1926
(probable)
'New Year Dance for Shore Club': the Larchmont Shore Club's New Year's Eve supper dance, Dec 31, 1926, with an exhibition dance by Amerique and Neville for roughly six hundred guests, music by Billy W
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
(possible)
Generic career-retrospective mention of Neville's Broadway dancing career (c.1953 Jimmie Fidler column); no specific production named.