Word: hibbard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the title "Utopia College: A Prospectus" Dean Hibbard of the University of North Carolina pictures in the current number of the Outlook and Independent his conception of what the ideal college should be. First he pays tribute to the experiments in progressive education now being conducted along various lines at Harvard, Wisconsin, Swarthmore, and other institutions, which are to a considerable extent embodied in his own plan. The prime purpose of Utopia College is the avowed one of all modern universities; namely, to stimulate intelligent thinking. In pursuit of this fundamental end, however, Dean Hibbard proposes a radical innovation...
...Fannie Hurst strode in among last week's horde of notables with plays for sale. Miss Hurst's play was concerned with Jewish matters, as was her great short story Humoresque, later acted by Laurette Taylor. The latest, inferior to Humoresque, is moderately well performed by Edna Hibbard. She marries a crook, reforms him. Her simple Jewish parents are much harassed by wealthy surroundings thrust upon them by an unexpectedly prosperous son who sells antiques...
...cast is good. It brings to us once more Edna Hibbard, in our midst a few weeks ago as Dorothy in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". To be frank, Miss Hibbard is not so pleasing as she was in her other vehicle, but this is largely because she is left out of the wisecracking mentioned above. The part assigned her rives her by no means the opportunities she had when exchanging bon mots with June Walker. Love has come into the life of Elzy Everetts, played by William Boyd, and apparently this has disastrous effects on ex-gunmen. He and Harry...
...DUNES-Harry Kemp-Brentano's ($2). To masculine Poet Harry Hibbard Kemp, neo-Whitmanian, who, bred in Kansas, has gone around the world on 25? and studied "tramping" for years, the sea and its gulls, its tidal slime, fog, dunes and shiny-footed waves, is a source of life in strong, recurrent phases. The first two dozen pieces of this volume evidently reflect a summer spent on Cape Cod with or near a loved woman, whose presence is more felt than seen. Besides these spans, which are briny and refreshing as a dory full of mackerel, are some painful...
...characters all spring vividly to life, led by June Walker who, though brunette by birth and nature, offers a perfect performance as the cooing, wide-eyed, traveling siren, Lorelei Lee. Edna Hibbard's saucy nose, jaunty figure and coon-shouting voice add immensely to the personality of Lorelei's hard-boiled girlfriend, Dorothy, upon whose caustic nature has been fathered the echo: "Brunettes prefer gentlemen...