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B. was born on 12 September
1904 in Belaya Tserkov, Kiev Gubernia, Ukraine.
Her father was a teacher of
Russian.
Due to economic conditions
her parents sent their very grown-up children in America
and thus B. came to America at the age of five. Here she
finished public school, learned for two years in high
school, and became a stenographer for a lawyer. But in
the school she acted in the children's productions, and
later she became a member in the Art-Ring, which was
associated with the Yiddish Art Theatre. She
participated in the mass scenes for the local
productions, then she acted for a short time with Anshel Schorr in Philadelphia, then at the Irving Place Theatre
where she acted in a children's role in "Liliom" by
Molnár.
From then she went over for two seasons with Anshel
Schorr in Philadelphia, a season with Charles Nathanson
in Boston, a season at the Irving Place Theatre with
Satz, and a season with Ben-Ami.
In 1927-8 B. acted in
Chicago for Elias Glickman, in 1928-9 in New York's
National Theatre, in 1929-30 at the Hopkinson Theatre
(in Brooklyn, New York -- ed.)
Specialty: [love=libhoberin]
songs.
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