{{short description|American actress, dancer, and vaudeville performer}}
{{Infobox person | name = Lotta Faust | image = File:Lotta Faust by Eddowes Bros (cropped).png | caption = Faust about 1908 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1880|2|8}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1910|1|26|1880|2|8}} | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | birth_name = Charlotte Faust | spouse ={{plainlist| * {{marriage|Paul Schindler|1898|1902|end=divorce}} * {{marriage|Richard Ling|1902|1909|end=divorce}} }} | partner = Malcolm A. Strauss | years_active = 1896–1910 | occupation = {{flatlist| * Actress * dancer * singer}} }}
'''Charlotte''' "'''Lotta'''" '''Faust''' (February 8, 1880 ''–'' January 25, 1910) was an American actress, dancer, and singer.
==Early life== Charlotte Faust was born on February 8, 1880, in Brooklyn, New York the daughter of Mary Hauff Faust and Frank Faust.<ref name="Wilson2016">{{cite book |first=Scott |last= Wilson |title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons |edition=3rd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA236|date=2016 |publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-7992-4 |page=236}} </ref> <ref> {{cite web | url = https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LRSV-WFD | title = Lotta Faust | last = Faust | first = Lotta | website = FamilySearch.com | publisher = FamilySearch | access-date = February 25, 2024 }} </ref>
==Actress==
Faust's first appearance in theater came in ''The Sunshine of Paradise Alley'' (1896), produced by Denman Thompson. In 1900 she appeared in ''The Belle of Bohemia'' while in September 1901 she acted the role of ''Geraldine Fair'' in ''The Liberty Belles'' at the Madison Square Theatre. She became popular in ''The Wizard of Oz'' (1904–1905), in which she sang the ''Sammy'' song. She then joined the company of Joe Weber and appeared in ''Wonderland'' (1905). Later she was among the cast of ''The White Hen'' (1907), starring Louis Mann at the Casino Theatre. In 1907 she was in the troupe of Lew Fields in ''The Girl Behind The Counter'' (1907–1908), ''The Mimic World'' in 1908 and ''The Midnight Sons'' in 1909.<ref>''A Pictorial History of American Theatre'', Chilton, 1960, pgs. 65,66,102,104,106,108,109</ref><ref> {{cite web | url = https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/lotta-faust-40231 | last = Faust | first = Lotta |title= Lotta Faust | website = Internet Broadway Database | access-date = February 25, 2024 }} </ref>
==Vaudeville==
Faust's vaudeville career began at the Casino Theatre with the introduction of a unique cake walk. She teamed with Frank Bernard for this act in April 1900.<ref>"This Week's New Bills", ''New York Times'', April 29, 1900, pg. 18.</ref> In August 1908, she appeared at the same venue performing a Salome interpretive dance, which received widespread positive and negative attention. She claimed to experience both ''the horror and fascination'' during her performances.<ref> {{cite news | author =<!--not stated--> | title = Behind the scenes with five Salomes | url = https://www.newspapers.com/image/560631311/ | work = St. Joseph Gazette | location = St. Joseph, MO | date = November 30, 1908 | access-date = February 25, 2024 }} </ref>
Faust was among the most notable performers, along with Ada Overton Walker, Eva Tanguay, Vera Olcott, La Sylphe, Gertrude H. Hoffman, Ruth St. Denis, Mademoiselle Dazie, Julian Eltinge, and Fanny Brice, of a Salome dance during the "Salomania" craze in America.<ref> {{cite book | last = LeFurgy | first = Bill | date = 2022 | title = Sex, Art and Salome: Historical Photographs of a Princess, Dancer, Stripper, and Feminist Inspiration | location = Takoma Park, MD | publisher = Highkicker Books | page = <!-- or pages: --> | isbn = 9781734567861 }} </ref>
==Personal life== Faust was married twice. Her first husband was Paul Schindler, a musical director, whom she divorced in 1902. In the 1900 census, the couple are listed as living with the Green family as boarders. Her second husband was singer and comedian Richard Ling, whom she wed shortly after divorcing her first husband.<ref> {{cite web | url = https://www.ancestry.com/familytree/person/tree/11674476/person/-383969231/facts | title = Lotta Faust Facts | last = Faust | first = Lotta | website = Ancestry.com | access-date = February 25, 2024 }} </ref>
==Death==
Faust died in January 1910 at a sanitarium on 33 East 33rd Street in New York City.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G05qvDPTqWoC&q=lotta+faust+obit+1910 |title=Who's who in the Theatre: A Biographical Record of the Contemporary Stage |date=1947 |publisher=Gale Research |language=en}}</ref> The cause of death was pneumonia which resulted from an operation she had several weeks earlier. Just before she became ill, she played a primary role in ''The Midnight Sons''. She sued Ling for divorce a short while before her death. Faust was engaged to Malcolm A. Strauss, an illustrator, at the time of her death.<ref>"Malcolm A. Strauss Weds", ''New York Times'', June 14, 1911, pg. 9.</ref>
==See also== *Mabel Barrison
==References== <references/>
==External links== {{Commons category|Lotta Faust}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120211150629/http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=515986&word= Lotta Faust] New York Public Library Digital Gallery photos (Wayback) *[https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&keywords=lotta+faust Digital Collections](NY Public Library) *{{IBDB name|40231}} *[https://books.google.com/books?hl=En&q=the+actor%27s+birthday+book+lotta+faust Lotta Faust] in ''The Actors Birthday Book'' (1908 & 1909 editions) by Johnson Briscoe *[https://web.archive.org/web/20220601014615/https://broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/lotta-faust Lotta Faust: Broadway Photographs](University of South Carolina)(Wayback)
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