The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-07
BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN
NEA Service Writer


downright. 1881. by NEA Service. Incl
A INdEE M'PHERSON-th mag
IN netic, golden-haired angel Of
Angelus temple"-wore a blue suit
trimmed with blue fox fur and a
modish Eugene hat when she and
David L. Hutton were married in a
tri-motored passenger plane at
Yuma, Ariz., because Married in
blue your love will be true"
How different this sky elopement,
heralded around the world, from
the simple home ceremony years
ago in the little Canadian town OF
Ingersoll. Ont, when Aimee Eliza
beth Kennedy, II, tripped altarward
with Robert Semple, preacher and
boilermakerl
No reporters, no photographers at
that wedding.
There was no elaborate trouSseau
either. There was no posing before
motion picture cameras. Aimee, the
blushing bride, had seen only one
motion picture show in her life at
that time. She had attended just
one dance-and danced with the
village preacher.
THOSE were the days when
l. Aimee was a red-head. She
attended Ingersoll collegiate insti-
tute and her chief claim to diStinc-
ton was the fact that when school
programs were given Miss Kennedy
always won applause for speaking
the best piece"
She had admirers-yeS, indeed.
In 1907 Aimee entered popularity
contest staged by the woodstock
(Ont.) Sentinel-Review.
She won more votes than anyone
else and was awarded the grand
prize-a free vacation trip down the
st. Lawrence to Quebec. 1t was
Aimee's first view of the world out
side the small Canadian commu-
nity-a world she was to encircle
and conquer.
She was not given the title, Miss
Popularity" cit was before the day
of beauty contests, but that prize
trip held all the significance and
glamour for the farm girl that sub
sequent Miss Manhattans" and
Miss Chicagos" have known.
That trip seems to have been a
turning point in Aimee Kennedy's
life. She was pretty, II, rather we'll
developed, but still girlish. Life
beckoned and the fire that has since
made her the greatest woman evan
gelist in the world had begun to
burn.
TINE trip to Quebec was to be
Il followed shortly by more mo-
mentouS happenings.
Aimee heard talk in the school
classroom about 1.-The Holy Ghost
Revival services Preacher Robert
Semple was conducting. Semple
was a newcomer in Ingersoll. Curl
Gus, Aimee left a school play re-
hearsal to visit the revival
"As schoolgirl spoke at school
and church entertainments and
took part in all the amateur plays
I could. 1 loved the stage and de-
cided to be an actress. I tried to
forget my mothers teachings and
read Darwin and Ingersoll.
Then one day, dressed in all nv
finery, I slipped into little mission
in the Canadian town where at
tended school, attracted by the
voice of the handsome young
preacher, Robert Semple. He had
curly brown hair and a beautiful
face and he upset me.
'At first I giggled at some of the
things he said, but 1 couldn't forget
them. I went again and then one
afternoon driving along the frozen
country road In a sleigh the miracle
happened A warm glow filed my
heart and I began to pray to God
to forgive me. was converted"
THUS simultaneously Aimee was
n won to love and to the church
She flung herself into the excite
ment of the revival meetings. She
absented herself from school day
after day to sit in the crowded mis-
sion room. Nothing her mother and
father could say or do could keep
the girl away.
AS the evangelist explains:
Il have never done anything half
heartedly. Some people go through
life always undecided, always neu-
trail; but from the time / was a tiny
child, whatever I did I did with my
whole heart"
SO there were arguments in the