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Lights burned all night last week in the decorative Malibu Beach cottage of soul-saving Aimee Semple McPherson. In Los Angeles, 15 mi. away, squads of the faithful?praying in two-hour shifts?sent up a rustle of Hosannahs into the shadowy vault of the $2,000,000 Angelus Temple, musnud of the Four-Square Gospel Church. Temple attaches, hired huskies and Four-Square laity thronged through the flower-decked beach bungalow. Newshawks excluded from the premises even reported having seen a handsome, black-mustached gentleman attired in flowered pyjamas. Although her life has been more melodramatic than that...
...after which she was not heard of until some six weeks later when she appeared in Mexico. Airplanes, boats, divers searched for her body. One diver was drowned. Although she was identified as the woman seen at Carmel during the interim with Kenneth G. Ormiston, Angelus Temple radioman, her story of being kidnaped and held for ransom was upheld in the California courts. Ormiston has never reappeared in California, has never testified...
Aimee Semple McPherson, soul-saver, returned to the U. S. (via Paris) from a trip to the Holy Land, with Bibles, lamps, some Palestinian garments (to wear in the pulpit of her Angelus Temple Church of the Foursquare Gospel) and bright yellow hair (it was reddish when she left the U. S.). While she whirled away on a 200-mile week-end trip through the Catskills, U. S. Customs agents checked her luggage, levied $138 against her in duties and penalties for undeclared imports. Returning to Manhattan to find she had made Page One all over the U. S., Sister...
Jean Charles Millet, 32, of Barbizon, France, was extremely fond of his grandfather. Who, indeed, would not be fond of such a forbear as the late great Jean Francois Millet, painter of The Angelus and Man With Hoe? So fond was Grandson Jean Charles that last week he was ignominiously thrust into a jail in Melun. For his fondness sprang from the fact that he had been able to use his grandfather's illustrious name in a scheme to bilk the public...
...pilgrimage to the Holy Land, announced that she had written the music and libretto to an opera, The Fiery Furnace. The scene is laid in the riotous court of the Pharaohs, the music to combine Old Testament themes and Jazz. Although first intended to be presented only at the Angelus Temple, Savior McPherson said that she had been persuaded to have it performed "at all opera houses in America...