New Britain herald., 1928-03-20
FINDS HAPPINESS IN CALCIUM GLARE
Eva Tanguay, Rich, Tells Why
 She Remains on Stage

Eva Tanguay, for 40 years a stage favorite. is AZ years of age, she as-
 sured a reporter of the Herald to- day, thereby relieving his mind of question that had bothered him slnce her appearance at the Strand theater, where she is now playing, and has undoubtedly caused others to ponder. The young old timer is as pleasant off-stage as she is anus ling behind the footlights. her per sonality affecting an individual as it does an audience.
 Miss Tanguay was born in Marble ton, Canada, and made her first ap- pearance in a Holyoke, Mass, anna teur performance when she was eight years old. That something, which makes for stage success. appeared to the audience then and there. In a short space of time she was on the professional stage, still getting her stuff over the footlights. One ot her earlier appearances was at the age of ten when she played in the pro- dUction of Little Lord Eauntleroy. In ''1he Sambo Girl' she made her first big hit, peculiarly enough with the song which is coupled with her name today and which is demanded by audiences wherever she goes-"I Don't Care" Incidentally she states that she played in "rhe SuInbo Girl' in New Britain, about 33 years ago, as she can best recall. "I remember my first stage dress. ot those days" she said. Tt was made of a. black silk umbrella, a large ono, the style at that timc.'
 And Why Should She Calrr
 ''l was luCky enough to be inter cst"d in California before the dcvcl- opmont of Hollywood and own property there now, having B ten ants in my various pieces of real estate. l have nothing 10 worry about financially in the future.
 Knowing that, my friends have asked why l stay in the theatrical business and am not content to re main in a home Of my own. The truth is ] am horribly lonesome when l am net before an audience. For one who has been on the stage as long as l have, evenings in q house drag horribly and l have often been so lonesome that l have wopt when I happened not to be Norking.'
 Miss Tangllay is very modest about her ability to entertain She admit ted Canlldly that she is not q top notch dancer or singer. When ask cd to account for her io years of popularity, for her history of years with Broadway productions and long bookings in New York vaudeville houses. she did not care 10 do so. So her interviewer must. It is her personality that gets her by. the ia Cility with which she is able to in oculato her audiences with the same spirit of fun which she gets out of acting. that has kept her prominent ly before the public for 4h years.
 When l do not feel happy, when I am blue, I usually fail to carry my audience. but whom l am in good spirits ] can sec the result in my reception" she said. And the inter- viewer, having seen her many times, could understand that point.
 Feeling nothing but admiration for the actress who had been able for 4o years to inject into the atmos- phcrc of the thcator the bUoyancy that means an enjoyable perform ance, who had risen to stellar heights by hint of personality, the interview
 .,,l,, $i,,no n Miss Tanguay to go to the theater Tn for her afternoon per iormanCe.