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Emma Carus

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Actor 1879–1927 On stage 19001911

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. She frequently sang in vaudeville and sometimes in Broadway features. 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."

On stage 14 productions, 11 years

1900 Nell-Go-In New York Theatre · Original 25 perf.
1900 The Giddy Throng New York Theatre · Original · directed by Frank Smithson 164 perf.
1901 The King's Carnival New York Theatre · Original · directed by Frank Smithson 64 perf.
1902 The Defender Herald Square Theatre · Original · directed by Frank Smithson 60 perf.
1902 The Hall of Fame New York Theatre · Original · directed by Ned Wayburn 137 perf.
1903 George W. Lederer's Mid-Summer Night Fancies Crystal Gardens · Original 24 perf.
1904 The Medal and the Maid Broadway Theatre · Original · directed by Cyril Scott 57 perf.
1904 Woodland New York Theatre · Original · directed by George Marion 100 perf.
1905 When We Were Forty-one New York Roof · Original 66 perf.
1907 Follies Of 1907 Jardin de Paris · Original · directed by Herbert Gresham 70 perf.
1907 Ziegfeld Follies of 1907 Jardin De Paris · Original · directed by Herbert Gresham 79 perf.
1910 The Jolly Bachelors Broadway Theatre · Revival · directed by Ned Wayburn 165 perf.
1910 Up and Down Broadway Casino Theatre · Original · directed by William J. Wilson 72 perf.
1911 The Wife Hunters Herald Square Theatre · Original 36 perf.

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Worked with more than once12 names

Frank Doane 5 productions
Amelia Summerville 4 productions
Pat Rooney 3 productions
Mayme Gehrue 3 productions
Louis Harrison 3 productions
Lilly Brink 3 productions
Georgia Kelly 3 productions
Charles H Prince 3 productions
Vera Morris 2 productions
Theodore S Peters 2 productions
Stanley H Forde 2 productions
Stacia Leslie 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 11 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on1 work

Ziegfeld Follies

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In the literature3 passages

  • Cast : Grace LaRue, Mile. Dazie, Prince Tokio, Emma Carus, Harry Watson Jr., Marion Sunshine & Florence Tempest, George Bickel, Helen Broderick, Nora Bayes (added)ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • Emma Carus, Grace LaRue and Helen Broderick. Other musical attractions included: Louis Mann in “The White Hen”theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • in the Friars’ Frolic of 1911. The song did not catch on right away. Not until popular songstress Emma Carus sang it in a Chicago vaudeville house did its notoriety begin. Before the year was out all America was singing it. If any one song ever changed the direction of American music, it was “Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” Ragtime was hardly…theatre-pdfs/Word Crazy-Broadway Lyricists (Hischak).txt

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