Eva Tanguay

Singing.

"Hello, Eva" and "I Don't Care."

Eva cavorted on in a Christmas tree costume, and it is safe to say that seldom has a fir been so illuminate. She sang two of her last year's songs, one slightly revised to take in the victory of American arms. Then she changed to a dress made of currency-whether she changed to a dress made of currency - whether Mexican or U.S. could not be made out. Thereafter she made it in her familiar and stunning combination of milk white tights and silver bodice, first with a dizzy headdress and then with her dizzier hair undressed. For a finale she let loose a ballad in tribute to the mothers of America. The song had dramatic fervor and sincerity, and Tanguay had the same. Had she but seized an inspiration to wrap herself in a robe to her ankles, stand perfectly still and render that panegyric "straight" it would have been a sensation. As it was it went powerfully. She also turned a neat trick in an audience song called "Hello, Eva," in which she got the villagers to hello her and she gyrated about and helloed them right back. Eva is now billed as the "Apostle of Optimism," and to rivet that home she did "I Don't Care" for the blowoff. She should worry!

Variety, 53:7 (01/10/1919)