The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-12-01
MACHINE
IN MOTION
Bruce Evans and Party Set
Wheels in Motion at Big
Meeting Tuesday Night.


motion this week probably the most
serious drive in an evangelistic sense
started in years. Bruce Evans OF
i Long Beach, Calf, heads the work,
and his wife, brilliant pianist and
pipe organist, holds the piano score in
the hollow of her hands. Mr.. and
Mrs. F. R. Slower, people with re-
putation as wide as the United States
/ in Oheir field, are part and parcel Of
/ the machine here and the way things
/ started at the initial services showed
that Emmett had secured no novices
but experts in their line Bruce Evans
7 for IL years has been ranging the
Northwest states. He is still young
man of athletic build, nervous, quick
manner, and the words run from his
mouth like water from bottle He
thinks fast, talks fast, works fast and
gets results fast. He rapidly made a
place for himself in his opening talks.
His style is so radically different
from any other evangelist that COM
parsons, as Mrs. Partington used to
say, are "oderous" He announced at
the start that he didn't want any one
to call him brother" and he would
put any one in the hospital that ad-
dressed him as reverend" He pre-
fers to be known as straight Bruce"
by men, women, children and dogs.
His opening talks are about half and
half serious effort, and funny asides
that double the audience up. The i'm
pact of some of these witticisms have
the force of shell and lot of peo-
pie are hit before they know it and
for a moment bear the same facial
expression of men who are hit by a
bullet, but don't realize it until mo-
ment later. Bruce is an entertaining
speaker and it doesn't take much of
q prophet to foretell that the revival
meetings are going to be the "headin'
home" place for the large proportion
of our population the next few weeks.
Big Chorus
A gang of men set to work Tues |
day morning and by noon had the
stage of the Liberty theatre trans
formed to meet the requirements of
the meeting. A platform has been
thrown up outside the proscenium
arch % feet long and 8 feet wide.
Tl,;e -, %,,rx, orf;o,,la &c nth fba v,,oiv |
stage, which has been run up in tiers
If seat, giving the phole an appear
ince Of terraced singers that is effec-
i've both from looks and ability to put
he music over. The piano is situated
1t the west end Of the platform, and
ligh enough up for all the world to
Zee Mrs. Evans work at it. Some one
emarked that she would "phy on the
,iano," but that was an error; she
'layed with it. The baby grand is
mere toy in her hands and it was
urprised "baby" when she sat down
eside it and informed it that its l
mamma had arrived"
The music of the revival also show
d that it was made out of Chautau-
ua material when Mr.. and Mrs. Sto-
er began work on their cornets. In S
one and execution both they are ar
sts and coupled up with Mrs. Evans
iano that leaves them free to go as U
ar az they like, the cornet duets are t
distinct feature and will be looked
or every night with pleasure. Mrs.
tower appears to be an all-around
enius because her vocal numbers 4
ave a brilliancy and control that n
peaks in unmistakable manner of the e
est teaching. Her voice is mezzo- c,
,prana with cello like richness that t.
very rare, and the handling of her il
anissimo tones with coupled swells o.
i'd the crowd leaning forward. The q
lorus is built Of the best singers in m
mmett and numbers over sixty c
ices. Mr.. Slower is an absolute te
ader, and not for a minute does
ther audience or chorus trek where
wills, leaving lot of frayed edges ;.
melody lying by the road. He was =;
years past a professional band y,
aster in New York City for nine hi
ars and the fact that he has left Y
e concert platform far in the rear g 8
esn't affect his old time positive a
ldership. The crowd is already fall Of
3 in line and sings as steadily as nc
e chorus. There is going to be some "a
city high grade music at the revival tr t
ing with other high grade things. an
Prayer Meeting High Girls. an
Mrs. Slower met body of women ~
afternoon and divided the M -,
y into prayer districts. Cottage
aver meetings will run every morn !.
, from $3.50 to 10 o'clock, and the -
zee of meeting will be indicated by "a,