Variety (May 1916)

30 VARIETY Is the spirit of the wine of hilarious good cheer—of optimism of the nth power -BOSTON "TRANSCRIPT" 75 centimeter entertainer is the high light on Keith's bill this week —BOSTON "TRAVELER" Boston TravoUr" EVA TANGUAY RENEWS SUCCESS AT B. F. KEITH'S Eva Tanguay, 75 centimeter entertainer, it the "high light" on Keith's bill this week. All her old friends, together with the new ones she always makes, are seeing her. She is talking to them from the stage, singing at them and scolding them while she prances about with arms and legs ever in the Tan* guay style of ceaseless motion. Eva does a lot of hew things. She knows what people like and gives it to them. What "old stuff" she does is mostly that has had to do with making her famous. She com* mences with a rush, continues with a rush and finishes with more rush. There's a lot going on when Eva Tanguay is on the stage. he sings—though she tells us again that she can't and doesn't care; she prances and dances—though she tells us again that she can't dance at all. She leaves little to be done. She drops bits of wisdom in poetry and song: she scolds the men. talks about herself, tells her audience she loves 'em, presches on pre- paredness and all sorts of things. One of the hats she wears is outrageously glorious and of enormous proportions. The first thing she sings is "That's My Speciality." The audiences wanted to keep her on it, but she went on to telling about her first amateur night and the dollar watch she won. Her song about a booster being better than a knocket is a dandy. Whether Boston will ever tire of hearing "I Don't Care" is a question. Certainly no audience ever made more joyous noise than the one last night when she gave It—with new va- riations—at the end other act. Boston "Evening Transcript" Eva Tanguay was the big drawing card which held the audience's interest way down to M J" on the bill. Then this iridescent whirlwind of "mirth and song" held it closer, captivated and electrified it with her dynam- ic energy and original methods, creating a furore as usual. It is useless to try to an- alyze her act or the hold she has on her audiences; it is all summed up in two words—Eva Tanguay. Every season she seems more slender in figure and a little more rounded, more spontaneously vivacious and untiring in her rapid, restless flitting across the stage like a bird preparing for flight. A bird of gorgeous plumages, too, like noth- ing on the earth or in the sky. Unique and striking in their styles, fit and colors and rich in their material, all seemed to be but a part of her peculiar individuality. So, also was the musical patter called song, most of it purely autobiographical. Uttered by any- one else it would sound flat, but from her it sparkled and bubbled and exhilarated. She is the spirit of the wine of hilarious good cheer, of optimism at the nth power. Her bits of personal history, ambitions, strivings and achievements, advice to hunters of men, preference for boosters rather than knockers, all illuminated by the laughing face, seemed but the natural play of mischief incarnate; a wild thing caught for the moment outside its natural environment among the sprites and elves. There was much new matter in her songs which caught the house. Eva Tanguay is popular at ever.—Boston "American." Eva Tanguay made a bigger hit than ever.—Boston "American." Eva Tanguay is the best illustration of perpetual motion in human form.—Boston "Post." Eva Tanguay has an eternal smile.—Boston "Globe." Eva Tanguay, with no exception to the rule, was obliged to re- spond to encore after encore.—Boston "Journal." EVA TANGUAY Is Playing This Week Her FOURTEENTH RETURN DATI to KEITH'S,BOSTON, MASS,