Eva Tanguay

Musical comedy with humorous lyrics.

"Hello Everybody," "I Want Someone to Go Wild With Me," "Outside of That, Eva, You're All Right," "Sticks and Stones," "When Pavlowa Sees Me Put It Over," "There Goes Crazy Eva," and "I Don't Care."

While Miss Tanguay is new to the theatre, she was not a stranger to the Monday night audience, judging from the reception and the laughter at the many pointed lines in the lyrics of her new songs. The house responded quickly to Eva's first, "Hello Everybody," carrying a request to call back "Hello." The second was "I Want Someone to Go Wild With Me." The idea got a laugh. "Outside of That, Eva, You're All Right," next, was a decided comedy success. The ballet costume worn by the singer for "When Pavolwa See Me Put It Over" brought applause at Eva's entrance.

Miss Tanguay has the best collection of numbers, lyrically, she has yet sung at one time. The songs are well written with telling points, and if, as reports say, Blanche Merrill wrote Miss Tanguay's new numbers, Miss Merrill is shooting ahead rapidly as a songwriter. The numbers are, of course, aided by Miss Tanguay's sprightliness and knowledge of delivering songs built to fit her style. Her diction is not the least important. The combination of Miss Tanguay and her present songs is a merry one for the eccentric's current vaudeville tour. Miss Tanguay concluded for another encore with the immortal "I Don't Care," returning once more with the best written curtain speech or recitation ever heard on the vaudeville stage. It was an ode to the audience on the New Year, timely, fitting and earnest.

Variety, 37:5 (01/01/1915)