TV-RADIO LIFE
WHO IS NEVILLE?
The untold story of KTTV’s
new and controversial personality
By Jack Holland
‘There is a man over KTTV way who
ad sent the grandson repeated pres-
definitely offerin
4s creating a good deal of talk, He is
ceived no acknowledgment. I told her
ents on every occasion but had re-
Provocative — an
4
something new and
‘something loaded
that instead of concentrating on bit.
with dynamite. His name is Neville.
terness she should actively put herself
‘This very interesting man appears
in the middle of the situation she de-
fon Channel 11 at one ‘clock on Sun-
sited. I advised her to write little let-
ays. Those who have listened to him
ters each night to herself ag though
ve been more than intrigued. Many
they had come from her grandson and
remember him when he was here last
daughter-in-law and to write the ve
year and did one telecast —from
thir
‘she most wanted to hes
Which the “station
'3000,
etters.
ni
wrote notes which sald how much she
for a week she did ti
‘She
XETTV was so impressed with him that
had been missed at her daughter-in-
they brought him back for a series of
law's home and asking her to come
talks this year.
to see the family. Before she went to
to classify the kind of work
‘sleep each night she kept this picture
eto
9s. For want of a better def-
in her min
f her walking into her
inition you ‘could call him a meta-
hs
son's home
in. On the morning
fr
at go along with the power of posi-
yysician, He also deals in thoughts
the eighth day she got an envelope in
tive thinking, ‘although’ his approach
the mail in which were two notes—
Is somewhat different from that used
from her grandson and her daughter-
by the
pular Norman Vincent Peale.
see them, how much she had been
in-law asking why she hadn't been to
Peale himself explained the difference
missed, and would she please come
when
he. w
‘asked for an opinion
for'a visit.
about, Nevill
‘The renowned minister
“These are only minor examples.
remarked
it Neville was undoubt-
But this same. thin
ean Happen to
edly a fine man, but said, “Hower
bear in mind that he is @ ome hundred
you and your probl
fe
jem if you'll try
percent metaphysici
‘whereas 1 am
my way."
minister.”
vt
is unlike most people who
Neville has one main philosophy.
dealin new theories. He asks no
It is the power of affecting life rather
funds, he depends on no one for sup:
than reflecting It.
port. He earns his living by his lec-
tures, which are
Iways attended by
“There is a wide difference in think.
he has written. A friend of
packed houses, and by the eight books
is, wrote
from” what
ing of what you want and thinking
a
ant”. Neville ex-
to the Library. of
eas asking. to
plained recently. “Supposing there is
have Nevi
‘Boo
i Bla
eed there un+
Something.
yu want to. accomplish,
der the “New Though
‘department,
some situati
you want to be in. i
Dut afler checking the volumes the
believe that instead of thinking how
Libre
ed. that because of Ne
much you'd like that certain some-
ville’
vr boldu
ie of the imag
nation th
havin
thing, think of yourself as actually
‘in the middle of
books would have to be placed alony
that
ft, of belny
red situa
n. In other words,
losophers.
with those of Emerson and other phi-
actively.
ut yourself into the reality
‘Neville’ became interested in this
of a fulfl
fi
led desire.
theory
of
‘his— which he. calls
aroused interest in the ‘use of the
“in all the lectures and classes T
ind—in 1925. At the time he was
950
have given I have stressed this
nd I know it works. T
Rave
‘successful dancer. After eleven years
hac
‘countless
je tell me how it
‘the stage he quit. His whole life
has worked for them, and I know
had been taken over by this power-
ful new thous
what it has done for'my life. I al-
“1 really learned the most about it
‘ways tell those who come to me with
from “Abdullah. one ‘of the
reatest
2 problem
picture themsel
mystics of all time,”
jeville said. “He
the situation they desi
‘to ile in bed
nd activel
‘chang
ged _my life. I have had no ob-
before going to
sleen
Stacles in ray Ii
ince then.
For ‘instance, a girl in New Yorke
bring into focus what they most want.
“Of course, I have met 0
position.
wanted to go to E
in
‘There are those who have cal
fi
led me a
cally. She had no money. I told her to
heretic, Ministers have stormed out of
get real picture in her mind of h
my lectures on occasion. But most of
Sralkin
‘along the Left Bank in Paris
those who
‘me are those
Rave
to thi
i
‘of the
there, to heai
already learned and who are
vt want to outgrow what the
raid to
the sounds of the eit
‘and to concen-
Tearn anything challenging and new.
trate on that picture.
ll, just a little
“1 have only one thin,
to say to the
time ago T got a letter from her:
Paris. She had been there six month
4
doubters — try what 1
lieve in. it
“Another woman I know had been
won't fail any of you, You can't fight
told by her daughter-in-law to leave
Something you haven't tried for your
her house and never to return. For
sell”
‘two years this woman hadn't seen her
Neville is apt to blow u
storm
son or her grandson and had been
here, but he’s not one to
e any
carrying bitterness in
t
a
as
reatest … mystics of all time,”