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...Richmond this week, two museums were showing the work of an odd painter named William James Hubard, who died there in 1862. Hubard had painted gloomy but perfectly proper portraits of Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and Richmond belles for a living; evenings he turned his hand to what he called "Gothick" fantasies. A few, like his Silent Violinist (see cut), were weird enough to recall his melancholy contemporary, Edgar Allan...
...Hubard's past was as shadowy as his art. He assured his Richmond neighbors that he was "an Englishman of good descent." Looking at his tangled hair and piercing eye, people thought he might be a gypsy. He had arrived in Manhattan at 17, with one Mr. Smith who set him up as a silhouettist on Broadway. Admission to the "Hubard Gallery" (50) had entitled visitors to "see the Exhibition and obtain a correct Likeness in Bust cut by Master Hubard who without the least aid from Drawing Machine or any kind of outline but merely by a glance...
...basketball player is supposed to make a good end. W. and M. has two of them. Not only do they play basketball, but Al Vandweghe and Glenn Knox are All-Conference courtmen, and will bring their ball-handling ability to the receiving end of Bud Hubard's passes. They're big, too, and can block...
Second University Crew--Stroke, James Lawrence '29; 7, Allerton Cushman '29; 6. R. J. Harrison '29: 5. J. DeW. Hubard '29: 4. D. S. Greer '29: 3, M. R. Brownell '30: 2, D. S. M. Lanier '28: bow. A. T. Gray '30: cox., R. W. Herr...
...Cutler vs. Webster, Monte mayor vs. Huntington, Richimeyer vs. Wyman, C. W. Johnson vs. Rounds, Walz vs. Fetter, Hubard vs. Allen, Guld vs. F. W. Straus, Schwarts vs. Kunitz...