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Seeking Annulment. Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, 57, mother of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; of her marriage to Rev. Guy Edward Hudson. After the ceremony on June 28 (TIME, July 6), a Mrs. Margaret Newton of Los Angeles, Calif. saw press photographs of the couple, recognized the groom as her legal husband. Last week she filed suit for divorce, while authorities prepared to charge Mr. Hudson with bigamy. Said "Ma" Kennedy at first: "Those other Janes better leave my man alone." Said she later: "I am out of his personal battles. From now on I'm going...
Married, Minnie A. ("Ma") Kennedy, 57, evangelist mother of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson; and Rev. J. E. Hudson, onetime Manhattan businessman; by Rev. J. G. Gay, vice president of the bride's Everlasting Gospel Evangel Church (Olympia, Wash.); on the shores of artificial Lake Sacajawea, Wash. Said she: "The ceremony was performed in God's Great Outdoors . . . with His birds' songs in place of an orchestra." Later on newshawks found "Billy Sunday," her favorite horse, missing from her stables, concluded that she had galloped away on her honeymoon...
Another Chicago "story" of the week: that Evangelist Billy Sunday is a brother of Judge Adolph Joseph Sabath, having changed his name to Sunday some years ago because it "went better" when he was playing professional baseball (Chicago Cubs...
Thereupon the elders sent to Kansas City for an evangelist of local renown, Rev. George Rider, 45. He swept down on Halley's Bluff with an oldfashioned, long-term revival meeting, organized a children's choir and a six-piece band, roared from the pulpit. Converts came flocking...
Married. Roberta Star Semple, 19, daughter of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and the late Missionary Robert Semple; and William Bradley Smyth, 23, purser of the S. S. President Wilson; in Singapore. Purser Smyth met Evangelist McPherson and her daughter at the beginning of their world tour (Jan. 20), was instructed to give them "special attention." He became Miss Semple's fiancé in Shanghai (Feb. 16). "It is a pure love match," said Evangelist McPherson, "I give it my blessing." Said Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, grandmother of the bride: "I got married when I was 15. Sister [Mrs. McPherson] went...