Evening journal., 1916-09-22
Miss HIBBERD CLAD
TO Be IN CITY AGAIN
Popular Little Actress Stars
in Fair and Warmer"
at the Playhouse
NINETEEN, SHE SAYS,
ON STAGE MANY YEARS


Miss Hibberd?" I asked Miss Gordan,
the young woman who reigns su-
preme in the box Office at The Play
house yesterday afternoon. ] was look
ing for Miss Edna Hibberd who, you
know, is playing the leading role in
Fair and Warmer" the delightful
comedy that is at The Playhouse
this week. You see, I am a reporter,
(feminine), and Mr.. City Editor hav-
ing heard how nice and attractive
and all Miss Hibberd was. had sent
me 70 get an interview with that
dainty little star
She's just gone in the theatre
If you hurry you can catch her" was
the information from behind the
gilded bars.
Miss Hibberd was experimenting
the scene shifters and seing for
herself that everything was being
put up O. K on the stage. She is
rather small. being something like
FIVE feet three and slim. and-I know
It isn't nice to give Swaps" but,
honest she's as pretty as a picture
She invited me up 10 her dress
ing room Her wardrobe trunk which
had just arrived from the station.
stood in the middle of the floor AS
there wasn't anything else in the
di essing room to sit on, we pumped
ourselves down on the trunk and had
the incest chat imaginable
DO ! like to act?" she repeated
the question after me. "You lust bet
do Why, it's my very life and some
day (accent on the some" please). I
expect, or rather hope. TO be a really
truly comedlenne. love comedy
work"
Then followed a heart to heart
talk in which learned that this lit
tie actress is quite different from act
resses generally. in that she has no
pet superstition. she doesn't carry
around with her any Fidos. or FiF's
or JULIUS or whatever the majority
Of the pampered up pets are called by
their adoring mistresses. and says
she is too busy 10 bother about suf-
frage and al other movements along
feministic lines though she confessed
that she adores swimming motoring,
horseback riding and walking, etc
you see. / am really an outdoors
girl" she said. "and / Just love all
sorts Of outdoor sports. I get up early
every morning and take a nice long
walk and until a little while ago
drove my own car
And then. taking a tighter grip upon
my pencil and pretending not TO be
scared, / proceeded TO ask my inter
viewist a very personal question-about
her age
A laugh rippled out,
"Sue," she said, Il was born in 1897.
in Detroit, Michigan Now, how old am
~ she queried, smiling.
smiled with her. Only 10 and play
ing leading part. However on earth
H
"Well, you see,' she said, sliding back
farther on the trunk so that her feet
didn't reach the floor by a long way, Il
really have grown up on the stage.
When 7 was 8 years old took a juvenile
part in Shore Acres, a play by Theo-
dore Roberts. and from then on 7 have
been playing That's all there Is 10 it,
she added
The subject suddenly veered to-
movies. Miss Hibberd informed me
that she acted for the movies but does
not like IT, She claims that they
stunt ambition as acting before a cam
era is not the same incentive to do
ones best She is. very fond of her
present part, that Of "Blaney" in
Fair and Warmer" and following
their playing here the company will
tour the south. Wherever she goes
she is accompanied by her mother,
Mrs. w. l.. Hibberd. She has also
played in vaudeville.
For one so young 10 have so sue
cessfully climbed the ladder she is
remarkably free from affectation and
mannerisms of any sort
TITS mighty good to be back here,
she said. speaking of Wilmington,
"as ] surely do like Wilmington" and
can one judge from the applause
which greeted her when she made her
first appearance on the stage last
night, Wilmington surely does like
her. Miss Hibberd has played here
before. playing Little Miss Brown"
and Baby Mine" and in a stock COM
pany.
Wilmington theatre goers had an
other real treat at the Playhouse last
night, when they saw Fair and
Warmer" with an excellent cast. II is
described as a play Of temperature
and temperament. and that is about
the best description which could be
offered Of it. There is no question
that It is a delightfully."- refreshing