Neville's professional dancing career ends in the Depression, New York, about 1933

When the Depression hit in 1929 and theaters closed, Neville's professional career as a dancer also ended.

Place: United States

Person: Neville Goddard

TV-Radio Life (15-22 April 1955) gives the stage career as eleven years and attributes its end not to the Depression but to Neville's own change of interest: 'After eleven years on the stage he quit. His whole life had been taken over by this powerful new thought.' Eleven years from the 1922 start recorded on hist_event 1031 lands on 1933, matching the later of the two years already claimed on this event.

Broome links the end of Neville's dancing career to theater closures during the Depression.

Date (happened)
1933
unresolved
  1. 1933 estimated · probable · preferred
    Reasoning Neville's own telling, 'back in 1933' (Message Abdullah Told, 10 December 1971, passage 553007); 'after eleven years on the stage he quit' from about 1922 gives the same year. Club dates still follow (the Cascades, Boston, 1935).
  2. 1929 stated · doubtful
    Source Neville Goddard Research Neville Amerique Broadway Shows And Theaters ¶0"when the depression hit in 1929 and the theaters closed, so did Neville's professional life as a dancer"
    Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: A modern research article, not a printed date (decision 3B).
  3. 1929 stated · doubtful
    Source Mystery Election ¶26"in 1929", told in Mystery Election (nid 1910)
    Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: His own telling, which yields an estimated date, never a stated one (3B); an estimated 1929 claim stands beside it.
  4. 1933 stated · doubtful
    Source Message Abdullah Told ¶8"back in 1933", told in Message Abdullah Told (nid 2097)
    Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: His own telling, which yields an estimated date, never a stated one (3B); the estimated 1933 claim beside it leads.
  5. c. 1933 estimated · probable
    Source 'At the time he was a successful dancer. After eleven years on the stage he quit.'
    Why If the 1922 start moves, this derived year moves with it.
    Reasoning The 1955 profile gives the length of his stage career as eleven years rather than an end date. The corpus dates the start of his touring to 1922 (hist_event 1031), and 1922 plus eleven years is 1933 — which independently matches the 1933 claim already on this event from passage 553007. This is therefore an estimated date derived from a stated duration, not a stated date, and it corroborates the later of the two years this event carries rather than the 1929 Depression year.
  6. 1929 stated · doubtful
    Source Margaret Ruth Broome Neville Goddard The Man Who Knew He Was GodBroome, The Man Who Knew He Was God
    Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: A biography, not a printed date (3B).
    Reasoning Broome places the closure of theatres and the end of Neville's professional dancing life when the Depression hit in 1929.
  7. 1929 stated · doubtful
    Source Broome says the Depression closed the theaters and Neville's dance career in 1929
    Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: A biography, not a printed date (3B).
    Reasoning The complete passage directly ties the professional ending to 1929, without a narrower date.
  8. 1929 estimated · possible
    Reasoning Neville's telling 'in 1929' (Mystery Election, nid 1910) and Broome; the clippings show him dancing through 1930-1932 (Hello, Paris; the RKO Prospect), so 1929 marks the Depression's start, not the end of the career.
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  1. 1932 stated · doubtful
    Source Neville Goddard Wikipedia ¶11"In 1932 he gave up the theater to devote his attention to his studies in mysticism"
    Why pm-actor-533: pm-actor-533: Wikipedia is not a printed date (decision 3B). Rudi's ruling keeps 1932 as a possible date: it goes on 764 as an estimated claim (Rudi, 2026-09-28: merge 1039 into 764).
  2. 1932 estimated · possible
    Reasoning Wikipedia: 'In 1932 he gave up the theater to devote his attention to' metaphysics (merged from 1039 on Rudi's word, 2026-09-28); kept at the confidence Rudi accepted for it. The stated copy is doubtful (a Wikipedia sentence is not a printed date); 1933, from his own telling, leads.
Place
Times Square
Persons
Neville Goddard
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