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Aimee Semple McPherson, notorious Los Angeles Evangelist, made known that, as soon as she returns from an inspection of the Holy Land, she will make an audible cinema based on events in her episodic life. Beginning with her soul saving activities in China as a preacher's widow, the continuity will include the scene of her still dubious abduction. Emerging from the sea in a dripping green bathing suit, she will be deftly anesthetized by villains, whisked away to the Mexican desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 3, 1930 | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Aimee Sample McPherson, Los Angeles soul saver, denied that she was going to marry Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, archangelic trombonist for Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, but admitted that he had given her a diamond ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...church Episcopalians agree with them, dislike the name Protestant, would like to change their church's name to something like American Catholic.* Last week the P. E. high-church weekly, The Living Church, printed an article by Dr. Frederick Henry Lynch, Congregationalist minister, editor of Christian Work and Evangelist, entitled, "Is the Protestant Episcopal Church a Protestant Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopalian Census | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...Arabs steal their horses. Nothing can save them from dying or being shot down on the colorless sand, under the sun like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence is executed on each of them is the subject of The Lost Patrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...temperature was "never less than 120°." It is too bad that this heat, or something, made Director Walter Summers, known for his competent war newsreels, mess up this opportunity. The characters are never properly identified; the flashbacks into their lives are jerky and incomplete. Best shot: the evangelist going crazy and running out into the desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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