The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-22
BY GILBERT SWAN

NEA Service Writer
 New York.-Stopping for breath after her long, spectacular climb to the top of the Broadway world, ''the lady dynamo" began to have certain doubts and misgivings.
 The very term, lady dynamo, staring at Eva Tanguay in large black type from a newspaper page, was sufficient cause for disturb ance. How much longer could the dynamo run at full speed ? Time had gone sweeping by. And her thirties were at hand.
 What did she have? A mansion on the Drive" that was the talk of the town; a summer place at Sea- bright, luxuriously furnished and linked with whisperings of lavish parties; n fine can and a chauffeur, baubles and a great reputation.
 But at what price? Scandalous stories going about, built largely around the capricious, hard-boiled personality created for the thea ter; looked upon as symbol of the daring and the mad on and off, stage: accepted as a sort of the- atrical freak-and not so many years to go!
 ShackIeS Of Song
 Branded the II don't care" girl she pleaded to escape from the shackles of a song.
 Eva Tanguay went from one manager to another. Always with the same result! Sure they would give her a contract! sure--but it was to be understood that she would feature the "1 Don't Care" song. That was what the crowds wanted and expected.
 She was passing thirty-with a : Follies success and forty-two vaudeville return engagements! But they wouldn't let her change. There seemed nothing to do-she had to go on.
 Deplored Her Role
 One, two, three, four more years --she became 34, and still no escape. The old pep was going but how was an audience to know that!
 Eva Tanguay made bitter and unhappy statements to reporters who pressed her with questions.
 "Yes, I'm supposed to be the ir- responsible, careless exponent of the happy-go-lucky and the mer- curial," she sighed. "I have some- thing of health-but what else :? Life becomes both wretched and dreary. Sometimes I yearn to be back in Holyoke again! It's no New York-just a small town, but it was home. I've got cars and gems. But on the stage, I've become a curiosity; something of a freak!
 "Of course 1 wanted to be an Af.k s,1lr ay~ti let to create a figure which has be- they won't let me be an artist. Wherever I go-it's always: I don't care!'
 Whats worse, I hear it on all sides-hear that I'm crazy-that I'm this and I'm that. hear it from the public. Great heavens, they seem to think they're going to see some sort of curiosity.
 Dynamo" Runs Down
 'It has cost me my friends and many of them have spread the most scandalous and untrue stories about me. They've resort ed to every sort of invention, since some of their stories seem to fit a type of character. The result is that I'm. a thoroughly wretched person. I fight with managers and I've wrangled over salaries. It isn't because that's my nature. It's because I've got to get mine while I can get 1t, if there is to be no out"
 After 1912, the "dynamo" be- gan to run down!
 One night, the indestructible Tanguay collapsed back stage. Not so long afterward while on stage something happened to her voice. A doctor warned her that she would have to stop singing. She kept on trying. Finally, while the crowds were calling her back, the dapper medico stepped to the stage: "I shall not allow Miss Tan quay to continue" he said blunt ly. This must be her last appear ancc."
 Attempts Comeback
 The dynamic one went up coun- try for d rest But came back. More years-and by 1923 she was selling at auction the luxuries that cluttered her summer home. The "Drive" place had already been abandoned. Someone said that to look like her old self she would have to have her face lifted. So she took the surgical route back to the illusion of youth.
 And all the time, the old refrain had to be repeated-I don't care---''
 Back stage they would say, And put the old wallop in it, Eva"
 She reached 40. Then came the irraf 1ryp failing. Cataracts were covering both pupils. When new lyrics were shown to her, the lettering was three inches in size. Even then the words blurred. In 1920 there