B. was born around 1855 in Khoderkov, Kiev Gubernia,
Ukraine, into a Chasidic merchant family.
He learned in cheder, later
in school.
From age eleven he was away
from home, taking to various jobs which he had im ober
nit bafridikt and, possessing a beautiful voice,
performed in the chorus of a Russian operetta.
At the age of sixteen he
began to perform as a Russian coupletist-humorist, the
same
later in Yiddish in various variety theatres across
Russia. At a later time, he arrived onto the Yiddish
stage as a comic.
According to Chiena
Braginska, they performed in a quartet in their youth,
in Kiev he entered into (Fishzon's) troupe, where he
debuted as "Lut" in "The Sacrifice of Isaac", and was in
the troupe for eight years, afterwards going off to
other small troupes.
According to S. Krause, Sam
Adler had heard him singing in Kiev, also Russian and
Yiddish-Russian couplets. He hired him for Fishzon's
troupe and gave him a role to act for shikur "Lut",
because he was btbe became a "shkhur".
Mishe Boodkin heard that
Bieloglovski was the best "Lut".
According to Aba
Kompaneyets, in ninetieth year of F. Y., B. had sung in
a quartet with him (Kompaneyets, Bieloglovski, Gurevitsh
and Henekh Krahn), also Russian and at the same time he
acted in Yiddish plays.
B. almost acted in all
troupes that then existed in the Yiddish theatre of
Russia, and hot in zey farnumben a bkhbundik art.
In 1908 he passed away from
a plimenik in Simferopol, Crimea.
M. E. from Chiena Braginska, S. Krause, Mishe Boodkin
and Aba Kompaneyets. |