Emma Carus
Stage Actress
Early twentieth-century stage actress and vaudeville performer who appeared in 1907 in the original Ziegfeld Follies.
As a young girl, she was given vocal lessons by her opera singer mother.
She is credited with popularizing the Irving Berlin song 'Alexander's Ragtime Band.'
She was born in Berlin and raised in New York.
She performed in Ziegfeld Follies, a show created by Florenz Ziegfeld.