The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26

This is an interview l didn't expect TO
have.
Honest to goodness. didn't.
But
When 1 went to see Bought and Paid
For and saw Mr.. Hobart Cavanaugh
put one over as Jimmy Gilley'' and
just take the audience in the palm of his
| hand and turn 1t around like juggler
does ball, with his clever, droll, whim-
sieal serious. Interpretation of the part
of the shipping clerk l Just said TO
myself, says /
ME for Jimmy Gilley. l want to know
just how much of that gentleman is
Jimmy and just how much is Mr.. Hobart
Cavanaugh, who plays him."
So
1 got busy.
Certainly" said Mr.. Cavanaugh over
the wire, "In be pleased to see YOU"
"And certainly" says I, "Pll be pleased
to be there"
Promptly on the hour yesterday, Mr.
Cavanaugh and | met in the pretty Palm
Room of the Hillman, and talked our
selves blue in the face about jimmy
and how he did it.
First of all, let me tell you that not
y.
Mr.. Cavanaugh is quite grown up"
He's twenty-four, il you please, and
hush, don't breathe it--hes about to COM
init matrimony.
Would you have thought it?
Well
It's true-take it from me.
And he's so happy.
My word,
But I wouldn't let him talk about it
much-that is not very much, except to
tell me that his fiancee was q perfectly
lovely girl and played the lead with him
when he was doing Checkers
you just love him in Checkers ?"-and
that his ultimate aim was to have a
dandy nice home up in New York State
cmewhere-sometime somehow and
have great big "chicken farm
So there you arel
I've gotten the cart before the horse
somehow in this story and I've told the
thing that I'd intended to tell last first
That's d trife complicated, but II got
you. Steve"-just the same.
Il never know what to talk to inter-
view ers about" Mr. Cavanaugh said with
boyish, buoyant, humor-like sunshine
after sa cloud-and then relapsed ints
a Jimmy state again.
He's terribly serious-just like he is in
the play
he went on presently. In fact If I'd
carried out my idea which was to be a
civil engineer, and then spanned the nine
miles distance between Oakland and San
Francisco / wouldn't have been an actor
today. I'm a Californian-went to the
university there-and all the time | was
a student was trying to figure out in my
mind Just how that bridge process could
be accomplished. Everybody said it
couldn't be done. / knew it could and
so it has. My ideas, l hope, are little
more sensible than Jimmy's-in the play
ARD l really haven't half of his nerve
and conceit
A fact to which l can Subscribe most
heartily.
..Soinehow the impression has gotten
abroad that I'm the> original Jimmy of
novel.
None of the soled linen is carried
through the halls, but on each floor 1t is
carried to chute which in turn sends
it to, it's destination, thus disposing of
any chance for, germs to be carried about.
The basement will serve as quarters
for the colored people.
This is divided into rooms and wards
with baths and all the proper arrange
ments for caring for the sick and the dis
abled.
p One especially noticeable feature OF me
iffirrnary Is the splendid sanitary ar
rapgement. the innrmerable bath rooms,
sinks, toilettes, and wash rooms. together
with the portable bath tubs. making as
complete an arrangement as coudl be
found anywhere in the south.
A word about the prettiest spot In the
whole place--the sun parlor.
1t is ideal in location, the great spa
cious room facing directly on the east,
fand the cheerful, bright furniture giving
an air of home comfort and rest that is so