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David
Pinski's
70th Jubilee |
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On 30 October
1942, a performance was held for at the Second Avenue Theatre,
located in lower Manhattan on Second Avenue and Second Street,
in celebration of Pinski's seventh "jubilee", i.e. birthday. The
production was of one of Pinski's most famous plays, "Der oytser
(The Treasure)". The cast was replete with many well-known
Yiddish stars, all guest-starring for this one night in honor of
the famed author, e.g. Menasha Skulnik, Annie Thomashefsky,
Miriam Kressyn, Mark Schweid, Julius Adler, Jacob Mestel et al. |
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"Der oyster (The
Treasure)", a four-act satirical comedy, is about Yudke (Schweid),
a half-witted son of a grave digger named Chone (Skulnik) who
happens to discover a few gold coins in the earth where he
buries his dead dog. He gives the coins to his sister (Kressyn),
and her subsequent expenditures create rumors of a sudden family
wealth. She spreads the word around town about this buried
treasure.... Then fortune hunters appear from throughout the
village. A neighbor claims that the coins was found on his
property, and when he discovers otherwise, he not only loses his
job but his home too. Yudke's daughter gains a suitor through
the finery that she first purchased with the discovered
coins....
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