Emma Carus

Singing, a speech, and comic monologue.

"Take Care of the Men in Uniform."

Emma Carus, fresh as a honeysuckle blonder than ever (if possible) and as peppy as a colt, killed the house dead. Her finish was a riotous ovation. Her Jack Lait monolog has about worn out its best uses, since three out of every four talking acts today touch on prohibition and the first of July, but it still carries, due largely to the way the indomitable and intrepid Emma punches it across. Emma is still unique as a singer of Irish comedy ballads. After she and J. Walter Leopold, by far the best adjutant she has ever appeared with, had taken bows and made speeches, she did a new patriotic number, "Take Care of the Men in Uniform," which caught the house and got a crash. Frank Westphal is said to have written it. It is a winner, even after all the million similar ones that went before.

Variety, 54:10 (05/02/1919)