WHITE ROSE

This was written as a mini-musical and presented during the 70th Anniversary Celebrations for the Home League at the Royal Albert Hall on 27th June 1977

General Gowans recalls:

White Rose was a shorter musical we wrote for the 70th anniversary of the Home League in 1977. (This is the women's club of The Salvation Army with emphasis upon education, fellowship, worship and service.) The musical is set in Paris hut it was first produced in the Royal Albert Hall, London, by a team from Manchester when we were divisional leaders there. The National Home League Secretary was Colonel Hilda Pigeon. The Queen Mother presided over the afternoon rally, and I think Hilda was afraid that it she didn't have something special in the evening she might lose the congregation! She was probably right. her strategy was usually sound. I'm glad that White Rose is still being produced here and there. I did not know it was being published or we might have tidied it up a little. I found copies by accident On the counters of the Army's shop and bought myself one!

WHITE ROSE

The action of this musical is set in Paris and tells the story of the emblem which, for many years, was cherished by the Home Leagues in France.

SCENE ONE: A BOULEVARD CAFÉ