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Married. Margaret M. Eddy, daughter of famed Evangelist and Y. M. C. A. Leader Sherwood Eddy; and George Kerry Smith, an instructor at the King School, Stamford, Conn.; at Denishawn House (dance school) in Manhattan, where the bride was given in marriage by Dancer Ted Shawn (Mr. Eddy was in England writing a book). Before the ceremony Dancer Ruth St. Denis (Mrs. Shawn) danced a prayer of invocation before an altar of fiery dahlias...
From another source came another conflicting story about Mrs. McPherson's condition. At Des Moines, Mrs. Peggy Myrtle King, Templar, said that the evangelist was suffering a nervous relapse because a lunatic had hurled a snake through her window. Los Angeles Templars were debating whether or not they should begin a three-day fast to restore Sister's sight, although the attending physician announced that she would probably be able to deliver the Sunday sermon...
...evangelist named Robert Semple came to town. "He had brown hair and a beautiful face, and he upset me. I said to my father: 'Daddy, let's go.' " Several days later she fell down in a roller-skating rink, sprained her ankle. Following this experience a "great fire came down," she got the Oldtime Religion and Evangelist Semple. Together they went to China, where he died, leaving her with a baby, Roberta. She returned to California and married one Harold McPherson, by whom she had another child, Rolf. Then she divorced McPherson and took up soul-saving. Once, lacking...
Conspicuously absent was Winona Lake's most famed citizen, Presbyterian Evangelist William Ashley Sunday, 66. In recent years Mr. Sunday's vigor has diminished. He no longer exhorts as dramatically as in his heyday just after the War. Early last week he addressed the Miami Valley Chautauqua near Dayton, Ohio. Thence he hastened, past Winona Lake, to another of his homes in Hood River Valley...
Divorced. George Sunday, son of Evangelist William ("Hit-the-Sawdust-Trail") Sunday; by Mrs. Harriet May Sunday. Uncontested charges: he drank excessively, hit her, associated with other women...