Word: hubbardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great figures of the 19th Century were just Tyrone Power in period costume. Alexander Graham Bell turns out to be Don Ameche without a haircut. However, Loretta Young, who is getting to be almost as much of an historical figure as Tyrone Power, appears satisfactorily as Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, a deaf girl who inspired Bell to continue with his invention and not resume his teaching of elocution...
...material, much of it authentic, well-presented, exciting. Cinemaddicts will learn that Bell's first words over his new device, spoken just after he had spilled a bottle of acid, were: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." The picture then recounts Bell's partnership with Mabel Hubbard's father (Charles Coburn), his patent fight with Western Union and his meeting with Queen Victoria...
Died. Annabel Hubbard Phelps, 74, wife of Yale's Professor-Emeritus William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps; of apoplexy; in New Haven. Full of fire, fun and hospitality, Mrs. Phelps was almost as famed in Yale's social life as her husband. An experienced housewife, she always kept ten chickens in the icebox...
...Frank Hubbard looks like number one sprint man now that John White, former New Jersey schoolboy flash, has deserted track for spring football...
Playwright Hellman describes the Hubbards as people who "eat the earth." But she has not made them all of one piece: between the crude short-changer Oscar and his greatly aspiring sister is the difference between a rat and an eagle. Not instinctive, but icily calculating, is their family sense: the same greed which divides them among themselves unites them against others. Ben Hubbard perceives they are less a family than part of a race -a race of sharp-toothed, flourishing little foxes for whom the turning century promises a world of plunder...