Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-23
'EvANCEL|NE BOOTH
| SPEAKS TO 1000
5000 Unable to Get Into Au.
| ditorium to Hear Saliva
ton Army Head.

Clad in a red plaid checked shawl
land q ragged dress, Evangellne
Booth, commander of the Salvauon
Army in this country, last night kept
5000 auditors at the Washington
Auditorium hushcd and spell-bound
as she painted a clear-cut work pic
1ure of the work of the army among
the poor.
Almost as many were turned away
Ms obtained entrance at the Audi
forum. And the capacity house sat
In absolute stiffness while the speaker
IN rags sometimes doomed large ana
mighty on the stage challenging and
defving adversely and then shrank
small and pitifuI sympathising and
Ynothering sadness and poverty
Commander Booth spoke In TWEEN
4ieth-century parallels. Symbolism
was used time and again with tell
ing force. 1t surrounded her entire
dramatic lecture. we'll named, In
Rags"
Wears Four Keys.
About her neck Evangeline Booth
wore four keys. One symbohZes
Love Another bespeaks sympathy
another Sacrifice, and the fourth,
Service. These keys divided the lee
ture into four parts.
She took. the first one and heid II
.!o. Then she delved into an account
# her first visits among London
poor During this portion OF the lee
lure, Colndr. Booth berated the lnilu-
ence Of intoxicants. She appealed Tor
support Of prohibition.
The parable of love that she WoVe
into the lecture was the love OF a
father-drink-c razed--for MS TWO
rolden-haired children who had been
hn
scottish ways and who was redeemed
from his plight by the sheer love OF
The children.
Face Ultimate Goal"
F,vangeline held up the second KEY
the KEY of sympathy. And she WoVe
the parable of sympathy from it. Thus
she went through the lecture, touch-
ing little personal sides OF the HVes
Of 1.-The other half" ringing IN true
touches Of local color from time to
time.
At times she would manufacture
proverbs and pithy sayings. she
said once, when you're faring out
on a. good mission, never look benlnd:
start and go. And keep your head
facing the ultimate goal"
When she had almost finished a
1ableau, Crock of Ages" in which she
was the lone human figure was
flashed on the stage, while the organ
played quietly.
Crowds stormed the doors at the
outset of the evening. So great dld
the crush become that Maj. Edwin Il.
Hesse, superintendent of police, after
comforting with Inspectors Stoll and
Evans and Lieut.. Ready of the Third
Precinct, ordered that the reserVa-
tions be swept away at o'clock in
stead of at SIS SO that the crush
could be relieved. Later 5000 We're
turned away, a fortunate 1000 reach
ing the seats.
Many notables from the official and
social life of Washington were in their
seats as the United States Marine
Band concluded a short program at
SIS o'clock and "All Hail the Power"
the opening dong was led by Staff
Capt. Ernest Holz.
Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor of
the First Congregational Church,
opened the meeting with prayer;
Lieut.. Commissioner William A. Nc
Intyre presented Secretary Herbert
Hoover, the chairman, and he, in a
brief address, in which he character
tied Comdr. Booth as lone of the
great voices of the age" presented
Comdr. Booth.
Benedlction was pronounced by Rev.
Or. w. S. Abernethy after a vocal
solo, Il Bring Thee All" was rendered
by Brig. Walter Mabee, the words and
music having been written by Evan
geline Booth. -