Amerique and Neville at Ciro's, London, 1925–26

As a featured attraction at Ciro's in London in 1925, Neville and Amerique performed a jewel dance for the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York.

Place: London, England

Person: Neville Goddard

A 1955 Hollywood profile independently confirms that Edward, Prince of Wales, and George, Duke of York (both later English kings), were favorites of Neville and Amerique's act in England.

Date (happened)

between October 1925 and January 1926

unresolved

between October 1925 and January 1926 estimated · probable · preferred

Reasoning Expected at Ciro's early in October 1925 (scan 1969), 'the latest attraction' there on 14 October 1925 (scan 2115), the engagement prolonged in Variety of 9 December 1925 (scan 2213); Neville told of four months in London (passage 530018) and three months at £100 a week (744).
c. 1925 stated · doubtful

Source Neville Goddard Research Neville Amerique Broadway Shows And Theaters ¶3"performed the "jewel dance" for the Prince of Wales, Duke/Duchess of York"

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: sourced from a modern research article (passage 98201), not a scan; none here prints 1925
1925 stated · doubtful

Source Amerique Neville Goddard Vaudeville Photo Gallery And Newspaper Clippings"1925 – Ciro's (London): Featured attraction, performed the jewel dance for the Prince of Wales"

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: a gallery caption text, not a period scan; not truly stated
c. 1 January 1926 stated · doubtful

Source Amerique Neville Goddard Vaudeville Photo Gallery And Newspaper Clippings"1926 – Shore Club (Mamaroneck, NY): New Year's Dance"

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: a separate later US engagement, not part of the 1925 Ciro's/Europe trip; belongs elsewhere
December 1928 stated · doubtful

Source Amerique Neville Goddard Vaudeville Photo Gallery And Newspaper Clippings"Fox Theatre (Brooklyn)...Marriage By Contract (Dec 1928)"

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: a separate 1928 US engagement, not part of the 1925 Europe trip; belongs elsewhere
c. 1926 stated · doubtful

Source Before The Mysticism Neville Goddard Amerique Stopped The Show In The Summer Of 1927 ¶17"Last year they were the featured attraction at Cino's famous restaurant, in London."

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: a 1927 article's 'last year'; not printed on any scan cited here
1925 stated · doubtful

Source Like Youve Never Seen Him Somewhat Striking CostumesThe article places Amerique and Neville at Ciro's in London in its account of their 1925 England trip.

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: a research-article citation, not a period scan

Reasoning The source relates the Ciro's performance to the 1925 journey but does not provide independent programme evidence or a performance day; this is a non-preferred possible year-level claim.
between 1925 and 1932 bound · possible

Source Amerique & Neville Goddard (Vaudeville) - Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 50media:509, 'Views of Hollywood' column: '...as a team with Amerique, danced his way across America and into Europe. In England, they were favorites of Edward, the Prince of Wales, and George, the Duke of York...' No dates named. External authority: Cool Wisdom Books' compiled chronology lists the pair's only documented Europe engagements as 1925 (Ciro's London; Winter Garden Berlin; Ambassador Paris) and, per hist_event 19937 in this same batch, dates the Ciro's London stint to autumn 1925; their latest documented American vaudeville-circuit date on the same chronology is Jul 31 1932 (Palace Theatre, Chicago).

Why Sibling hist_events 19911 (Broadway) and 19912 (Hippodrome, not in this worklist) are split off the same retrospective column.

Reasoning This is a 1950s retrospective career summary (the clip's own circa-1955 date is the column's publication date, not the tour's), and it names no specific date for the American or European touring it describes. It can only be fenced between the earliest documented European leg (1925) and the latest documented American vaudeville date (1932) on this pair's record.

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before 1953 bound · possible

Source Neville Goddard Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 191

Reasoning The clipping describes the Amerique partnership and tours as Neville's completed former dance career; using the clipping's preferred possible 1953 date yields a possible bound before 1953 without mistaking publication for performance.
between 1925 and 1929 estimated · possible

Source Neville Goddard - Wikipedia and Photo Gallery — Cool Wisdom Books — 66Jimmie Fidler 'Views of Hollywood' column, media:1210: '...as a team with Amerique, danced his way across America and into Europe. In England, they were favorites of Edward, the Prince of Wales, and George, the Duke of York.' External: Wikipedia/Cool Wisdom Books date the European leg (including England) to 1925-26; American touring/Broadway credits continue at least through 1929.

Reasoning Same reasoning as hist_event:20015 and hist_event:20011 (which corroborates the England/London leg specifically to 1925-26 via an independent source): the column names no date of its own, so the event is fenced to the span this corpus and external research can independently document for the partnership's American-and-European touring.
c. 1925 estimated · probable

Source Neville Goddard Lecture Series: Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 23clipping 758 (also 1183, identical OCR; same text as media 736/1145, filename-dated 1955) — 1955 KTTV Sunday-show retrospective profile: 'Two of his most enthusiastic fans when he toured London with Amerique, were Edward, then the Prince of Wales, and George, Duke of York.' No date given in the witness itself. External authority: coolwisdombooks.com research page 'Neville & Amerique - Broadway Shows and Theaters' (same curating organisation as this clipping corpus) — 'Amerique and Neville sailed for England in 1925 and performed at Ciro's in London... they performed the "jewel dance" for the Prince of Wales, Duke and Duchess of York, and Princess Helen Victoria', also crediting the same continental tour (Winter Garden Berlin, Ambassador Paris) and Neville's return to America in 1926.

Why No exact month is recoverable; this is the year-level Ciro's engagement, not a specific date.

Reasoning The witness is a retrospective 1955 column with no date of its own, naming only the same two royal fans (Prince of Wales, Duke of York) that the external Cool Wisdom Books research page ties to a specific 1925 Ciro's engagement in London; the match of both royal names and the 'toured London with Amerique' framing to that external account, plus the external account's own note that Neville returned to America in 1926 (consistent with his American stage credits resuming with 'My Princess' in Oct 1927), places this engagement in 1925.
c. 1925 estimated · probable

Source Neville Goddard Photo Gallery and Newspaper Clippings — Cool Wisdom Books — 42clipping 907 — same 1955 KTTV Sunday-show retrospective column already read for hist_event 19955 (media 758/1183): 'Two of his most enthusiastic fans when he toured London with Amerique, were Edward, then the Prince of Wales, and George, Duke of York.' No date given in the witness itself. External authority: coolwisdombooks.com research page 'Neville & Amerique - Broadway Shows and Theaters' — Amerique and Neville sailed for England in 1925 and performed at Ciro's, London, the 'jewel dance' for the Prince of Wales, Duke and Duchess of York, and Princess Helen Victoria.

Why No exact month is recoverable; year-level only.

Reasoning Identical to the reasoning already applied to hist_event 19955: the witness is a retrospective 1955 column naming the same two royal fans (Prince of Wales, Duke of York) that the external Cool Wisdom Books research page ties to a specific 1925 Ciro's engagement in London. Same event, same evidence chain, different clipping scan of the identical wire text.
between 1925 and 1926 estimated · probable

Source Neville Goddard - Wikipedia and Photo Gallery — Cool Wisdom Books — 1KTTV (Channel 11, Los Angeles) retrospective TV-column profile, media:1145: 'It seems inconceivable that this same Neville, a little over a quarter-century ago, was hailed as one of the top dancers... Two of his most enthusiastic fans when he toured London with Amerique, were Edward, then the Prince of Wales, and George, Duke of York.' External authority: Wikipedia, 'Neville Goddard' ('In 1925, Goddard sailed for England with his dancing partner to perform at Ciro's in London, as well as the Winter Garden in Berlin and the Ambassador in Paris'); Cool Wisdom Books, 'Neville & Amerique: Broadway Shows and Theaters' (coolwisdombooks.com), listing 'Ciro's (London)... 1925-1926' under 'International Venues'.

Reasoning The column itself is retrospective and undated on the clipping, so it cannot date the tour by itself — but its own internal clue ('a little over a quarter-century ago', consistent with the corpus's other c.1953-55 Fidler-column datings of this same career-retrospective genre) points to the same mid-1920s window that TWO independent secondary sources document as the specific dates of Neville & Amerique's London tour (Ciro's) and broader European tour. The convergence of the column's own math with an independently sourced, specifically-dated external record is why this gets 'probable' rather than merely 'possible'.
1925 estimated · probable

Reasoning His own telling places the London dancing in 1925; anchor A033 independently corroborates a Ciro's engagement on similar terms, same year.
c. November 1925 estimated · possible

Reasoning Secondary biography (A033) dates the Ciro's start to about November 1925, three months at GBP 100/week; not confirmed by any scan here. (anchors: A033)
~~c. 1925~~ stated · refuted

Source Amerique Neville Goddard Vaudeville Photo Gallery And Newspaper Clippings"1925 – Winter Garden (Berlin)"

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: his own telling (passages 548648/552628) says he declined the Paris/Germany offer; he did not play Berlin

Place

Persons

Series / group

Amerique and Neville's trip to England, 1925–26

Told / reported

1927 stated · doubtful

Source Before The Mysticism Neville Goddard Amerique Stopped The Show In The Summer Of 1927

Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: drawn from an unrelated article's title (the 1927 Atlanta season), not a telling of this event

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