Ad describes a three-week M-F class series beginning Monday Aug 2, 1948, substituting for Dr. Frederick Bailes at the Fox-Wilshire Theater. The listed 1948 events cover Wilshire Ebell Theatre (#841) and the Five Lessons series (#839, #842, #1-#5) but none mention Fox-Wilshire Theater or a Bailes sub
Derived from dated newspaper clipping(s): media:1084. Curated 2026-08-17 against the existing event set; not independently re-verified against a primary source.
A lecture-passage recollection puts the crowd at twenty-six hundred with about a thousand turned away, and recalls Neville being criticized afterward at an Ambassador Hotel dinner party (hosted by Bailes) for a story he told about his first wife. The recollection does not itself name a date, so it is added as description context rather than a new date claim.Date (happened)
2 August 1948
probable
- 2 August 1948
- 2 August 1948
- 2 August 1948
Place
Persons
Told / reported
- 27 September 1968
- 27 September 1968
Sources
Source
- Lecture notice, 2 August 1948 (dated newspaper clipping (curation pass 2026-08-17))
- Brazen Impudence ¶4 (I know that many years ago at the Fox Wilshire Theater when I was speaking for Dr. Bailes, Mrs. Bailes called me in and told me of the horrible reactions she got from this story.)
- Proof the Law Works ¶25 (a dinner-party critic recalls the crowd: 'an audience of twenty-six hundred, a thousand who could not get in... all overflowing at the Fox Wilshire')
- Stone, Water, or Wine ¶0
