The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-18
Raymond Hitchcock Says That "A Sense of Humor Will Save any Situation and Asked to Define the Phrase
 Declares It Is That Quality Which Makes You Feel Sorry For Some Preachers In Small Temperance Town
Bx DOLLY DAIRYNPLE

Raymond Hitchcock's life is a series of pictures; his poses are pictures; his face is a picture; his language is as much picturesque.
 One picture of him will remain always in my memory; it was the one that greeted me the other evening when he swung into the station surrounded by a bevy of "girlie-g girls which he anus ingly referred to as his 'Hitchy-cuties' (and they were), his big, long arms dangling carelessly from his broad shoul- ders, the famous lock of blonde hair streaming out from beneath his per fectly good Derby bonnet, his world wide smile Illuminating his long, narrow face. while his bizarre 'get-up" (sar- torially) striped shirt, pale gray spats, large checked waistcoat and big, woolly. comfy looking overcoat belted and buck led up typically "Hitchy fled"
 Ponderous, big, different from anybody else in the world, Raymond Hitchcock doesn't come in small quantities; even over the phone his presence is bulk" when you make an appointment with him the Wnole WOTlO KNOWS IL, those WHOfIl ue will appoint to ride with him on his last journey will go advertised.
 Back of all this sits the only "Hitchy," and with his big heart, his big outlook on life (which has been so good to himl he leisurely swings his long, narrow feet and gathers in the sunlight of day that finds no problem which he cannot solve, and has found none since his world began in lighting up the lives or those less fortunate than he in scatter
 ing sunshine and joy into the dark paths of the weary and the world worn
 I'm afraid, my good friends, if you are expecting this story with MT. Hitch- cock to be funny" that you are going to be awfully disappointed because It isn't going to be in the least funny you'll see him in that role on the stage; but it's going to be awfully serious, be- cause, you see, I've probed deep ana launched true into the heart of this won derful man who makes thousands of peo- pie laugh every day and every night Tn the year-bad, glad, sad, mad Raymond Hitchcock, and I've found that the man has a heart-a great, big beautiful heart, and a great, big, beautiful vista of ll1e' and a great, big, beautiful mind
 That's just it; Raymond Hitchcock has never been afraid to be just simple He may have arisen out of the dust; ms arrival was a monsoon, or sandstofHi' what you will, and while it was dust or mortal clay it didn't give in to gravity.
 Talking to Raymond Hitchcock away from the throng is not a simple thinS' because most of the time he is actlng' talking for the crowds, as it were nv ing up to his reputation of being com edian, but listen, my friends, Raymond Hitchcock can be tender or terrlpie; sweet or bitter; but always supremacy the big-hearted gentleman. lie KNOWS had neople and he knows good people; he has seen the world from all of its angles; he has lived and learned; he has been among the throngs in the worst stree $ in captivity, where more people nave fewer laws than any germ uncataiogueo'