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"Jada," "Long, Lean, Disconnected Man."
The high spot in Miss Carus' song repertoire was "Jada," in which Walter Leopold, her new and nifty accompanist, sings with her. The way Miss Carus put it over it became more than a mere song. It was a vaudeville sketchlet itself. She sang "Long, Lean, Disconnected Man" with that surprisingly facile shimmy - well, not shimmy dance exactly, but suggestion of shimmy dance, or perhaps it was just a shimmy walk. Anyway, there was shimmy in it and that song cannot be sung without some shimmy, and nobody on earth can shimmy - sing that song better than Emma Carus.
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Variety, 53:8 (01/24/1919)