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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 233, 2 October 1928, Page 7

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mrs. Mcpherson in Britain.

(Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 1. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Homo Secretary, announces that there are no grounds for prohibiting the entry into the country of Mrs. Aimee McPherson, the American evangelist, because she may advocate controversial doctrines, but like all aliens she must satisfy the immigration officials in accordance with the Aliens Act. Mrs. Aimee McPherson, the famous American evangelist, recently arrived in Paris. In an interview with a representative of the London "Daily Express," she gave her impressions of the French capital. The evangelist said she had been looking at a chasm of unspeakable horror. "As the beautiful robe was lifted for a moment from the heart of sinful Paris, I caught a glimpse of an awful canker eating its core," she said. Mrs. McPherson intended to visit London "to drive the devil out of England." She travels with an entourage resembling that of a cinema star or a, world-beating boxer. Her staff included three secretaries, a Press agent, a business manager, six orchestras, a banjo company, and 60 girl harpists known as "Angels." The evangelis speaks at three times the speed of a politician, often uttering 1500 words an hour. She binds her converts to abandon cards, dancing, I smoking and drinking.