The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-08-10
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.
(By Glenn Guernsey

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| am not a born and bred New
| Yorker Proof: I have been known
! t. relnG ish my seat in a crowded
car to lady. l have lived In both
the west and south, and If | should
again go west of Pittsburg l would
not look out of the car window for
Injuns.
Several years ago, or, to be exact,
perhaps not quite SO long, / was edi-
tor of newspaper in town defi-
nitely located in that CONSTRUCTED
area between the Mississippi and the
Pacific, in the southeast corner of
state colored red on the map. AS
such my duties were SO various as
to make the kerosene circuit actor
who doubles in brass appear utterly
lacking in versatility.
One of my tasks was that of dra
matte critic. Greater martyrdom than
this no man has known. At that, the
law of compensation was on the job.
One night as usual, ] entered the
leading theatre. (The other one was
a moving picture house, and my
fusive appreciations of canvasback
drammer) With the bored, blase,
worldweary air affected by rural re-
viewers, | waited the rise of the cur
tain.
The attraction was musical COM
edy thing presented by company
Eva Tanguay. The curtain, in due
course, went up, as curtains have
habit of doing Then things began
to happen. They always do, | have
since learned when Eva Tanguay is
in the neighborhood. l stayed thru
the entire performance a thing
unprecedent. l even applauded.
Then l went home and wrote with
all the enthusiasm of an original
discoverer, a column of rapturous
rot about Eva | searched my cranial
able explanation of her charm, but
found nothing doing. So ! contented
myself with the refrain, Il don't
know why | love you, but | do
Eva doesn't play the one-night
stands any more She has become the
popular idol of New York. She is
the most original character on the
metropolitan vaudeville stage. She
does a stunt. that performed by an
other, would result in lunacy COM
mission, and gets away with It, She
an institution. And they are still
wondering why
TANGUAY IN "SALOME,"
Now Eva has grabbed fresh
bunch of the laurel things by do
ing a Salome stunt. ! don't vouch
for the historical accuracy of her
performance. / am not sure it is art
Yet it is probable that if she had
danced before Herod, that merry
monarch would have lost his own
head, and Salome would have been
given weeks notice and Eva ap-
pointed her successor.
In Oriental dances, as one COM
mentation has delicately observed,
the feet are given a day of, since
most of the work is done upstairs.
But Eva doesn't give a whoop for
precedent.
, whirling, devastating cyclone, ac-
companied by thunder and light
. ming and brain storms and Psychic
epilepsy and ingrowing ego and de-
lirium tremens. She Is q human cleo
tr;c battery. If she rad lived n
, Franklin's day, Ben wouldn't have
, had to fly kite. l would rather
fondle a live wire or daily with q
T third rail than shake Eva's little
paw.
But most OF all do love Eva whe1
:, she sings. Il Don't Care" OF course
she really cant sing. Nobody evel
, said she could. Eva herself admits 1t
and screeches: My voice sound.
funny, but it gets me the money, 81
l don't care And she adds: 1.-THE,
say I'm crazy and amt got no sense
but | don't care" So, when ills be
: fall, the New Yorker goes to hea
Eva, and then he doesn't care either
Where is there another like GU
, Eva? Answer: There amt none. Fo
, which we should be thankful. One o
/ her is blessing, but two should b,
I "a public calamity.
n And / don't know why we love her
and-I don't care.
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