The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-28
SuFFRAGETTE--N0
SAYS MODEST EVA
Famous Vaudeville Star Alb
hors Idea of Women
Policemen.
Eva Tanguay IS in town.

Eva ldnSuay IS IN Town.
Miss Tanguay is modest. She says
she doesn't know what it is that draws
people to the theater when her name is
on the electric sign. All the same she
gets a three thousand dollar a week
salary.
! At this dazzling figure has she just
renigged on contract for forty weeks
on the Orpheum Circuit.
, To a reporter on five cents a week
this seemed staggering herOism. Miss
Tanguay says, however, that she is
losing nothing by transfer to Lit
tie Miss Fix-It."
Miss Tanguay and the reporter held
high-brow conversation on several
portentous subjects.
The celebrated vaudeville actress
says she is not a suffragette.
Most certainly not--no! Think of
woman policeman-the picture is abb
horrent.'
All the same Miss Tanguay thinks
some women are clever enough to be
policemen if they had a chance.
when a woman is clever she has
man beaten forty ways" said Miss
Tanguay. But"
by an entrance into public life and
direct competition with men" says
Miss Tanguay, woman loses that
sweetness, delicacy and refinement
which is her heritage and without
which she cannot retain her feminine
attraction.
Men do not care for aggressive,
domineering, assertive women. If wom-
en- take on all the civic functions now
exclusively the prerogative of the
men-what will we do! Nobody to look
up to and respect
The reporter expressed some sur
! prise at these sentiments from a pro-
fessional woman. The actress said,
however, that the theatrical profess
sion could not he compared with the
legal, in instance. A woman lawyer
was quite different professional pro-
position.
| The woman lawyer DULLES, argues,
convinces against the will. The act
ress persuades, allures and wins out
by personal charm. Or at least some
thing less obvious and more subtle
than slam-bang argument from the
forum.
THE theatrical profession is the
best paid and the most delightful in
the world" said Miss Tanguay. And
Its opponents are the cleverest Of
people, I think it is only a clever
woman who will say-lm going on
the stage And woman is more pro-
tected in this than in any other phase
of professional or business activity.
| Why-here l am--protected by my
manageable resident manager-I am
surrounded by dozen safeguards
that are unknown to women in other
avenues of endeavor and accomplish
ment."
mo l don't think bachelors should
be taxed. They are quiet. harmless,
inoffensive beings. attending strictly
to their own business. They've done
nothing to subject them to a special
rating from the state. Bachelors
should be let alone to lead the mo-
notonous existence they have elected
to live"
| Miss Tanguay says there is no diff
ference in earning your living on the
stage than in a shop. You do your
little stunt and then go home and go
to bed just like anybody else. There's
no occasion for champagne suppers
and random acquaintances.
| Something Of newspaper woman
herself is Miss Tanguay for she writes
a weekly column for the New York
! Review in which she gives her i'm
pressions of people and things in gen.
eral. and likes it. she says. The cele-
brated vaudeville actress is, in fact.
nice to talk to, for she possesses a
certain quality that makes her stage
success understood
| E. G.. w.