Neville discovers his daughter does not recognize Wallace Reid

He tells how the film stars of his boyhood mean nothing to his daughter — he mentioned Wallace Reed to her and she said 'What?'
Date (happened)
between 1917 and 1926
unresolved
  1. between 1917 and 1926 stated · probable · preferred
    Source Rock Water Wine ¶8"forty-odd years ago", told in Rock Water Wine (nid 1868)
Told / reported
  1. 18 February 1966 estimated · probable
    Source Rock Water Wine ¶8passage 547373 (lecture nid 1868, 'Rock Water Wine'), delivery claim 1966-02-18 exact/probable (recovered chrome dateline '2/18/66', confirmed by day-of-week cross-check against the lecture's own 'this coming Sunday, on the 20th'), correcting an earlier circa-March-1966 guess
    Reasoning Passage 547373's later span (945-1052, beyond the printed preview) is Neville himself telling how his daughter did not recognize the name Wallace Reed, a star of his own boyhood. The lecture containing it (nid 1868) carries a corrected, day-of-week-confirmed delivery claim of 1966-02-18 at probable confidence; the telling inherits that same date and confidence.
Sources

Source

  • Rock Water Wine ¶8 (I speak of Wallace Reed, she said, “What?” And yet when I was a boy the name Wallace Reed itself was magic.)