A REVIVAL

Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1928, Page 5

A REVIVAL

MRS McPHERSON’S OPENING. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 9.25. a.m.) ' LONDON, October 7. Dense queues of men and women encircled Albert Hall hours before Mrs Aimee McPherson’s services. Scores of police were needed to control the motor-cars brought by (fashionable, bejewelled women. There was a frantic stampede when the doors opened and a danger of a panic. Elderly people with crutches were jammed against the buildings, but the police forced their way in and effected their rescue. There were remarkable scenes inside, people rushing, racing and pushing along the corridors in a scramble for seats. In ten minutes, more than ten thousand people were inside the building, while thousands were endeavouring to enter. Officials declare it was unprecedented in the history of Albert Hall. Mrs McPherson made a dramatic entry to a flower decked, stage. She was supported on the arms of two followers, and wore a white silk dress and black cloak. Her address was varingly humorous, .appealing, pathetic, and tragic, interspersed with gestures and anecdotes. In the audience there was considerable enthusiasm, with groans and aniens, and hundreds were in teai s. She announced in the first place that to-morrow’s subject would be guided by the newspapers.