Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...street corner in Salt Lake City, police picked up 37-year-old Mark Larmon Stewart, a post-office employe, as he stood earnestly expounding his faith to pretty Evelyn Christensen...
Father of two children, and expecting another, Postman Stewart told police that the Lord had appeared to him in a dream, commanded him to restore the practice of polygamy which the Mormon Elders abandoned in 1890. Postman Stewart had written to Miss Christensen and to three other Salt Lake City girls, asking them to help him "fulfill a command from the Lord and take on another wife." Miss Christensen had turned her letter over to the police, agreed to act as a decoy...
...chosen the girls? Postman Stewart said he had seen their pictures in a newspaper. Why had he not written to older women? He said the Lord had told him to take women under 40, and that he "might as well pick out the good-looking ones...
Prophet Smith was murdered by a mob in Carthage, Ill. in 1844. Prophet Stewart was placed in a psychiatric ward for observation...
...Wild Geese Calling" is Hollywood's version of Stewart Edward White's version of the Northland's version of California's Okic, without Steinbeck touches. Henry Fonda plays the part of the itinerant tree-chopper-downer, but his dreaminess is far less appropriate than it was in the character of Tom Joad. Nor is he helped by one of the slowest and feeblest scripts ever devised. The picture, though it contains eye-filling shots of geese flying north and south, quite fails to put across its theme of the strong man in conflict with nature. Much of the fault...