It's a Crime
The Vanishing Evangelist, By Lately Thomas. (Heinemann, 25s.) Aimee Semple McPherson, hotcha-gospeller of the Twenties, went for a swim. and disappeared for five weeks. Had she been snatched by kidnappers, as she herself claimed, or was she shacked up with her para- mour, as seemed much more likely? There were hysterical disciples who seemed capable of be- lieving that she had spent the time walking on the water, but there were enough sceptics, too. to bring about a prosecution for conspiracy and perjury, which talked itself into extinction, but not before Sister Aimee and. her faithful had celebrated the first anniversary of her disappear- ance with a great marshmallow roast and taffy pull. The long, hilarious and exciting story is re- lated lengthily,* hilariously and excitingly by Mr. Lately Thomas, the oddity of whose name is remarked by an American reviewer quoted on the wrapper. Her own name : Judith Christ.
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