| Main Performers | Rodney 'Gipsy' Smith - speaker |
| Set List | Speech - 'Three and a Half Years with the Boys in France and Flanders' (Gipsy Smith) |
| Performance Notes | 10,000 people are said to have attended nightly for Gipsy Smith's eight day-long stint at the Hall.
"METHODIST LONDON "CAMPAIGN."
Gipsy Smith, the well-known preacher and evangelist, is to take part in a ten-day "campaign" appeal to non-Church-goers in London, which the Wesleyan, Primitive, and United Methodists have joined to promote. The meetings will be held in the Albert Hall from November 16-27. A choir of 1,000 voices will lead the singing. Within a radius of one mile of the Albert Hall 30,000 visits are being paiid by Methodists to the houses and flats of rich and poor alike and as far as circumstances permit a personal invitation will be given to residents in this area to attend the Albert Hall Mission. The general secretary of the "campaign" is the Rev. O Ensor Walters, Room 79, 1 Central-buildings, Westminster, SW1."
(The Times, 10 November 1924, page 15)
"Last night there was a gathering, incuding many ex-Service men, at the Albert Hall, when Gipsy Smith, by special request, told the story of his three and a-half years' experiences with the Army during the great war, The services will be continued to-day and tomorrow, both at mid-day, at the Central Hall, and at the Albert Hall in the evening. On Thursday evening Gipsy Smith will conclude with a lecture at the Albert Hall.
The Royal Albert Hall mission is part of the campaign for calling London to Christ in 1924-1925, organized by the Wesleyan Methodist Church, with the cooperation of the Primistive and United Methodist Churches."
(The Times, 25 November 1924, page ) |
| Related Archival Material | Handbill (RAHE/6/1924/6) |