Emma Carus

Emma Carus (March 18, 1879 – November 18, 1927) was an American contralto singer from New York City who was in the cast of the original Ziegfeld Follies in 1907.

[1] One columnist described her as "a sort of combination of Sophie Tucker and Fay Templeton with a little of Eva Tanguay and Eddie Foy thrown in for good measure.

Carus headed a cast that was supported by a chorus quite similar to an earlier one that assisted Anna Held in The Paris Model.

[13] She was in a production of The Wife Hunters, a musical play in three acts, in which she sang in a pleasant, deep-throated way, and with a suggestion of a sense of humor of sentiment as occasion may require.

The Herald Square Theatre,[1] 1331 Broadway (29 West 35th Street),[14] produced the play which was based on a book by Edgar Allan Woolf.

[1] In 1911, Carus is said to have been largely responsible for helping introduce and popularize Irving Berlin's first major hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band".

[17] Carus fainted at the Great Northern Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, after hearing of her lover's suicide in June 1897.