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...Tanguay, at 65, was back in the news in Los Angeles. The arm-throwing, hair-shaking shouter, whose I Don't Care made her one of vaudeville's biggest stars in her youth, had periodically been reported near death during the last ten years. Last week she charged that Elza Schallert, a writer at work on her biography, refused to give back her autobiographical notes. Eva wanted the notes...
...Working Girl. The working-girl songs, and also such alley classics as She Is More to Be Pitied than Censured, My Mother Was a Lady, Throw Him Down Mc-Closkey, etc., are brayed with proper bathos by a chanteuse named Beatrice Kay, who can take off anybody from Eva Tanguay to Anna Held...
...Africa last winter to investigate their adrenal glands. Because the lion's adrenals weighed 1/11,,000th of its total weight, Surgeon Crile declared that its "sympathetic complex" made the lion the "most volatile of beasts." Her frizzy hair dyed corn-yellow, her blue eyes fading and weak, Eva Tanguay 58, famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis," she explained to a newshawk. "First I became blind. . . . Now my eyes are better, and my knee is worse The doctor says I will be able...
Frizzy-haired Eva Tanguay, 54, famed for her oldtime vaudeville singing ("I Don't Care!") was discovered to be destitute, critically ill of Bright's disease, rheumatism and a heart ailment, nearly blind. Since last May she had occupied a small cottage in Hollywood, refusing to let her friends know her plight. When the news spread, Mrs. Lucy Cotton...
Thomas, beauteous onetime actress, relict of Publisher Edward Russell Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph, placed a "substantial sum" at Miss Tanguay's disposal...