B. was born on 1 May 1880 in
Kovno, Lithuania. Her father was a cotton maker, who had
a great love for playing musical instruments, and
because of this was for a short amount of time
associated with the Broder Singer, and later was a
prayer leader.
As a child of
two-and-a-half, she came with her parents to America,
and here she completed public school, and at the age of
fifteen she performed in a dramatic club, whose members
included David Levenson, Bela Gudinska, Tornberg, Sam
Shneyer and Yona Ginzburg. Here B. participated in the
production "Dos tiger-por", that the club put on at the
Windsor Theatre. Soon thereafter she was taken into
Hurwitz's trope, and she performed as "Blinda" in "Di
geheymnisa fun london". Then B. traveled to
Philadelphia, where she acted for several seasons under
Mike Thomashefsky with Ch. Nathanson, Kestin, and Jacob
Frank. From there she toured through Cleveland, Toronto,
and Chicago, where she had the opportunity to act with
the guest-starring Morisson, Kessler, Adler, Lipzin and
Kalich. For several seasons B. also acted in variety
with Gabel in New York, and during the Gordin period she
crossed over to drama and melodrama. In 1926 B.
guest-starred in Europe, and then for a short time in
Montreal, Canada. In 1928 B. guest-starred in London and
in Lemberg. In 1929 she guest-starred in Kovno and later
in Riga.
M. E.
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