The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-07
ATTENTION, MATINEE GIRLS! HOW WOULD
 YOU LIKE TO MEET MR. PAUL GILMORE?
By DOLLY DALRYMP.E

This story is for matinee girls and women not too old to take box of r"chocolates' to the theatre and say:
 Isn't he just too lovely for anything?'
 Why?
 Because it's about Mir. Paul Gilmore, who is playing round at the Lyric this | week, and as everybody knows he's one of the real "matinee idols" of the stage. hence bit of "gush" is not inapropos.
 I may as well tell you right at the start that MT. Gilmore isn't married man.
 He has been; in fact, he is a rival of MT. Nat Goodwin and Mr. de Wolff Hop per- because he's had four perfectly good wives already, but now he is heart whole and fancy free, and unless Dan Cupid catches him unawares and shoots one of other way and unable to dodge it, think he's likely to stay that way.
 So, there is a chance for all of you who have aspirations, or rather there is no chance at all, perhaps. for MT. Gil- more, although a model young, up-to- date matinee hero, declares that No. g. must possess a fortune large enough to mix with his so that he can fulfill the dream of his life, which Is to put on movie which will cost no less than s3oo0OO, and to do that requires some mon D
 Matinee idols used to be rakish. dare devil, dashing fellows, with a halo of romance surrounding them, but that was in the long ago.
 Now they are different.
 Unlike the idols of matinee girls of other days, MT. Gilmore is really s.model' us15) young veteran of the stage.
 He fulfills all the requirements of hero of a front" page story in the Youths Companion, and the superinten- dent of the Sunday school which he at- tended may justly swell up with pride when his name is mentioned.
 Things do change-don't they?
 Goodness is rapidly becoming the style even matinee idols must be good-and now here's a pretty "howdy do," for what on earth would some of the "old-timers" have done if they had been called upon to face the music?
 Are you not ashamed of still being matinee idol'' l asked Mr. Gilmore as we sat in the foyer of the Tutwiler yes terday and chatted about everything from suffrage to golf. Tt seems to me that you've had your share of such honors."
 That's very nice of you to say that" MT. Gilmore said modestly, but do we ever tire of things that are pleasant? You fiatter me when you call me a mati- nee idol and
 "Oh come. how, you can't deny it." I insisted, flor I have the proof from thousands of matinee girls who declare that there never has been any one more lavishly decorated with the title than yourself"
 Well, if you insist, I accept the nomi- nation" he said courteously, ''but as a matter of fact, I think I am entitled to little popularity for I am really a vet eran on the stage, although I'm still called young, which pleases me tremen- dously. Go back bit into a little history and when I tell you that I was the first actor to pose in the movies, which, by the way happened to be only 16 years ago that entities me to something, don't you think?"
 'Of course it does, I agreed, ''but tell me about it..
 Tt rather sounds like the reminis- cences of an old timer" said Mir Gilmore smiling but as matter of fact the movies have developed so rapidly that the time isn't so tremendously long after all. The way it happened was like this: l was in New York and had a job. I also had a roommate who didn't have job At the time I was playing what turned out to be a six-months engage ment with Chauncey Olcott. Claxton Will stach was my roommate. And by the way, l never knew Wilstach who wasn't brght-Paul and Frank, and Clax and now Franks boy John turns out to be clever, too. Well, one day Clax Will stach hustled into the room all excite