“LA MARECHALE"

Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 11

“LA MARECHALE"

TO SPEAK AT CITADEL TOMORROW Mrs Catherine Booth-Clibborn, “La Marechale,” who is affiliated with the Mildmay Movement of London, is announced to speak at the Salvation Army Citadel at 11 o’clock to-morrow. This service will be broadcast by 4YA. In the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall at 3 p.m. the Marechale will bo tendered a welcome meeting. At 8 o’clock, in the same building, she will speak on the s'-’ ject of ‘ The Uninvited Gpest.’ Meetings will also be held in the Concert Chamber from Monday to Thursday, at 7.30. The Marechale was for 25 years p""a' Y ed on the continent of Europe as a religious and social worker. She the work of the Salvation Army in France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland, and her experiences in these countries form oile of the greatest religious romances of modern times. In France the work of the Marechale took her among the apaches of Paris as well as the elite. On one occasion the President of the Republic asked her the question; “Marechale, what 1 do you think is the chief need of France.” She, without hesitation, replied: “Monsieur le President, mothers!” , Tho Marechale speaks in three lav "’lanes and at times amuses the audience by failing to remember the ..relish alternative to some French word. Her histrionic powers are of the highest order. Her brother. Ambassador Herbert Booth, was styled “The Henry Irving of the pulpit, and his sister I might well be dubbed “ The Bernhardt of the platform. Tho gestures and facial expression would proclaim her as a Frenchwoman if it were not for the fact that those who have seen her father. General William Booth, and her mother, Catherine Booth, discover the characteristics in her of these two illustrious personages.

Special provision is being made by the committee to ensure seating accommodation for those at a distance. Reservations can be made by ringing up the secretary, Mr W. T. Wilson, phone