Religion: Sister Aimee Out?

When Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton learned last summer that her plump new husband, David Hutton, had lost a $5,000 breach of promise suit to a Pasadena nurse, she swooned, fell, cracked her skull, bled nasally and aurally, lay ailing for months. Meantime reports and charges circulated about the conduct of her Angelus Temple. A suit was brought to compel Mrs. Hutton to fulfill a cinema contract. Rarely was she able to preach her "FourSquare Gospel" to her flock. One day last month. Husband Hutton helped his wife to the rostrum of Angelus Temple,...

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