Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-26
EVELYN THAW, IN
CITY, SAYS SHE
FEARS HARRY
Scores Those She Says Try TO
Keep Her From Earning
Honest Living

traced me. ara { am afraid J VIII
meet him
"Tbaw I= dangerous al all times.
bun when he is drinking his sole
thought seems to lill somebody lie
drinks quart of brandy g day I
have been told. and then he gets 10
nrooding ami threatening to lEll
someone . try to keep track of aim
through friends and ! am notified
Every time he makes move that
seems to concern me But | am
have any rest until they put him back
-in MattcaWan"
Leaves Child in East.
Mrs ThaW declared that she had
left her little son, Russell, who is
four years old, with friends in the
East. and declared that no one but
herself and her Intimate friends kn""
where the boy is staying.
~ am afraid Harry Thaw VIII XIII
my son as well as myself said Mrs,
Thaw. "and ! love my little boy bet
ter than anything else in the world.
! could stand anything he could do
80 me. / guess, but il anything should
happen to my son, IL would XIII me.
Mrs Thaw also paid her respects
10 the preachers who have tried 10
prevent her appearing on the stage
. throughout tue country.
The agitation against me- she
said "is backed by Mrs. william
-Thaw. who furnishes money to the
people who are trying TO keep me
Fon the stage. Her work is being done
eby preachers and other people who
want publicity and who can think OF
no other way to get il than by crlti-
.cising a woman who has had more
sthan her share Of trouble and who
lis trying to support herself deccntly
and respectfully.
i, Only Means of Livelihood.
p - don't know anything but the
stage; an my life has been spent on
lthc stage. and IL they kept me from
making a living in the only way that
i know what could | do2 don't
ask for audiences because | am the
wife of Harry *, Thaw. ] am trying
tto support myself and my little SON
and all | ask is fair play. II people
don't think my show as a show is
worth coping to see, they can stay
away was on the stage In Lon
don for weeks before my name APP
lpeared on the program, and ! made
good because ! can really dance, and
j think | can act a little bit, too. My
show is as clean as any show in
America day, and if the people who
criticise me and fry TO drive me
from the stage would only come to
see 1t they would find that they have
no grounds at all for complaint"
Mrs. Thaw came Valiantly to the
defense of the tango and the turkey
strot, which she uses in her perform
sanCe. and which she laughngly de-
sclared haze been criticised almost as
harshly and fully as senselessly as
she herself
{ Tango Modest Dance"
The tango IS a modest a dance a S
shas ever been invented she said
s''it is much more modest and graceful
fhau the old waltz. ana the same is
strue Of the turkey trot OF course. /
Hon't mean by that the turkey trot Of
sthe barrooms and the slums, or even
of some ballrooms, but the original
turkey trot and the tango are ,very
modest and are not objected to by
people who know what they are
"One Of the great troubles is tha
people see the acrobatIc dances on the
stage and call them the tango, when
dheV are no more related to the tango
in reality than is the waltz or the
quadrille. | do aCrobatic dances my
self, with Mr. Clifford. my dancing
partner but the whirlngs and twirl-
1ngs that are all right on the stage
should not be done i'm the ballroom
Dancers, however are beginning to
appreciate the fact that the stage
tango is not the tango for the bali
icom, and they are fast learning the
cal dance"