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...Warfield Hobbs, chief publicity secretary of the Episcopal Board of Missions, remarked to Manhattan newsgatherers: "We are adhering strictly to the Mexican law. . . . As (Episcopal) Bishop Frank W. Creighton said shortly after his arrival in Mexico, 'Our Mission has nothing to do with diplomacy, industry or politics. . . . Mexico knows what is best for Mexico...
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...Frank Wittington Creighton had grown so famed for his personality and his clean-cut rectorship of the Protestant Episcopal church of St. Ann's in Brooklyn that last October the General Convention of his Church (the Convention that deposed, in absentia, Bishop William Montgomery Brown for his heresies) elected him bishop, and last week, as he knelt before his own altar, seven bishops laid hands on him, consecrated him the 150th living bishop of that Church. At the end of the month he will leave with his family for his new duties as Protestant Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Mexico, with...
...When the Creighton family get to Mexico City they will find a civilization quite other than that they knew in Brooklyn. They will find, it is true, a superficial resemblance in the clattering street cars and the well-paved streets. But they will find far wider distinctions between the social classes. Among the "foreigners," with whom they will associate they will find a ready, kindly, courteous welcome, a welcome tempered nevertheless at first by a quiet scrutiny, for the foreign colony of the city, perforce thrown into rather close communion, always wonders how affably the newcomer will...
Time, the Comedian. Frederick and Fanny Hatton wrote a novel in which Lew Cody, Mae Busch and Creighton Hale have been blended with thoughtful, valuable effect. It is about a wife who deserts a husband, is in turn deserted by a lover, and occupies herself at the conclusion by protecting her daughter from the latter. Miss Busch is better than four out of five who attain stardom. For once she has a chance and a director. This latter, curious to relate, is Robert Z. Leonard, whilom husband of Mae Murray and directorially responsible for many of that lady...