The 1930 census entry reproduced by the research page lists Neville L. Goddard as a lodger at 146 W. 49th Street in Manhattan.
Clipping announces Walter Lanyon at Unity Center speaking on 'You May Have What You Want'.
A Divine Science Church of the Truth advertisement at 27 West 72nd Street, Room 406, announces Walter C. Lanyon speaking on ‘Out of the Night,’ with noon and 8 p.m. meetings.
Broome recounts Neville beginning lectures and meeting his second wife
Description
Broome's narration of Neville beginning to lecture in New York City in February 1930 to a handful of people, and of his second marriage: a young designer in his audience decided she would marry him and he, shaking her hand, thought the same.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Bill features 'Hell Harbor' (Lupe Velez/John Holland) and Laurel & Hardy's 'Brats', both released March 1930, alongside Amerique & Neville — a specific vaudeville/theater bill not matched b
between 15 March 1930 and 15 April 1930
(possible)
Loew's, Akron, OH ('Akron's Friendly Theatre'): the film 'Hell Harbor' (Lupe Velez, Jean Hersholt, John Holland) with Loew's vaudeville on stage — the Watson Sisters, Amerique & Neville, Neal Sist
A federal grand jury indicted Fenwicke L. Holmes, pastor of the First Church of Divine Science, and five others for mail fraud in the sale of mining stock, per a New York Times report.
between September 1930 and October 1930
(possible)
Loew's circuit-wide theater listing (Brooklyn), showing D.W.
c. 4 September 1930
(probable)
Evidence from a newspaper clipping (Daily News, page 162, dated 4 September 1930 -- a Thursday, per the paper's own masthead) related to Neville's dance career.
between 15 November 1930 and 13 December 1930
The musical comedy "Hello Paris," co-starring Chic Sale, Polly Walker and Stella Mayhew, opened November 15, 1930 at the Shubert Theatre.
Place: Shubert Theatre, New York, NY
between 15 November 1930 and 13 December 1930
(probable)
Broadway musical revue 'Hello, Paris', produced at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, New York, 1930-11-15 to 1930-12-13 (IBDB production hello-paris-11263).
between 15 November 1930 and 13 December 1930
Neville danced the role of 'The Lover' in the Shubert production of 'Hello, Paris' (adapted from Homer Croy's novel 'They Had to See Paris'; music by Russell Tarbox and Maury Rubens, directed by Ben H
c. December 1930
(probable)
30 December 1930
(probable)
"Broadway Personalities," billed alongside Harry Richman and Dorrah Minevitch, played the Majestic Theatre in Brooklyn per a December 30, 1930 clipping.
31 December 1930
(probable)
'Greetings of 1931' — an 11:15pm New Year's Eve musical revue at the Majestic Theatre, Brooklyn, featuring Harry Richman, Norma Terris and Jack Pearl, extending the theatre's 'Broadway Personalities'
Fawcett published The Zermatt Dialogues, outlining a philosophy of mysticism.
Person: Edward Douglas Fawcett
Encouraged by ballerina Anna Pavlova, who died in January 1931, Joseph Berle and his sister Laura designed and marketed the original underwire bra.
Place: Paris
The Rosicrucian Fellowship Magazine's 1931 Cleveland Study Center Report documents Neville as a visiting lecturer from New York, predating his study with Abdullah.
In 1931 the Anthroposophical Society of New York relocated its headquarters from 30 West 72nd Street to 230 Central Park South.
Place: 230 Central Park South, Manhattan
Walter C. Lanyon's book "It Is Wonderful" was published by E.K. Reader in London.
Place: London, England
Person: Walter C. Lanyon
This source states that in 1931 Neville embraced the Ethiopian-born rabbi Abdullah as his spiritual mentor.
Place: New York City
Person: Neville Goddard
Preview ad for the 1931 film 'Lover Come Back' names Amerique & Neville on the same bill, but only the year is recoverable, not an exact date.
Television producer sustains thirty-three years of success
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
between 1931 and 1964
(probable)
between 1931 and 15 January 1965
(probable)
Neville notes that the Abdullah letter he had just reread had lain forgotten inside his old Bible for about thirty-four years, since roughly 1930 or 1931, before he rediscovered it the Wednesday befor
At their first meeting Abdullah, who had never seen Neville before, called him by name and told him he was six months late, because the brothers had told him six months earlier that Neville was coming
The man who urged Neville to hear Abdullah was David, a Fordham dropout and son of a Prohibition rumrunner who had lost his whole two-million-dollar inheritance on Wall Street in a year; Neville distr
Neville recounts practising inner vision daily with his teacher Abdullah, who at dinner would ask him to look through a lampshade, a car, a house or a wall with his inner eye, whereupon he would see l
He speaks of his friend Robert (Bob) Cummings, whom he knew well in New York City back in the days of Abdullah and who came to his meetings twice last year, and notes he himself will be fifty-nine in
between 3 January 1931 and 6 January 1931
(probable)
Loew's vaudeville bill ('Loew's Ace Vaudeville'): Mitchell & Durante, Amerique & Neville, on the screen the MGM film 'Reducing' (Marie Dressler, Polly Moran), a four-day Saturday-to-Tuesday bo
27 January 1931
(possible)
A Yonkers Herald Statesman clipping dated January 27, 1931 lists Neville and Amerique's act alongside the film "Outward Bound."
Place: Yonkers, New York
c. February 1931
(probable)
c. February 1931
(probable)
between June 1931 and December 1931
(possible)
Vaudeville bill at an RKO Proctor's theatre pairing a preview of the film 'Lover Come Back' (Columbia Pictures, general release 1931-06-16) with acts including Amerique & Neville and Miller &
between 18 July 1931 and 25 July 1931
(possible)
RKO Proctor's theatre vaudeville-and-screen bill: the First National film 'Chances' (Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rose Hobart), advertised as opening that day, with Amerique & Neville on the R-K-O vaude
between 15 October 1931 and 15 October 1933
(possible)
An Associated Negro Press dispatch datelined 15 October reports that a visiting rabbi/cantor has officiated at several synagogues during the past week and was a guest in the city; he is on a tour of t
A Joseph Murphy-sourced account states Neville gave up the theater in 1932 to devote himself to mysticism and began his lecture career, a different date than the 1938 'begins own teaching'
Neville related making a sea voyage from New York to visit his family in Barbados during the Depression, with no money of his own, using imaginal power.
Place: Barbados
between 1932 and 1934
(probable)
between 1932 and 1933
(probable)
He remembers New York City introducing a one-cent sales tax during the depths of the Depression, sold as temporary help for the millions of unemployed, which was never removed but raised to two, three
Neville notes he sleeps in the raw and has done for forty years, yet in his dream of the Queen he was clothed appropriately.