Lives in the Yiddish Theatre
SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE Yiddish THEATRE
aS DESCRIBED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"

1931-1969
 

Milani Gutman


Jacob P. Alder brought her over at the end of the 1890s from Europe.

According to his information G. completed the conservatory in Vienna.

G.'s first production came at the Windsor Theatre in the play "Fra diavolo", -- according to Bessie Thomashefsky -- "A great operetta, spoken in Yiddish, and she alone, the prima donna, [heyst es], has spoken German. A sympathetic German-Yiddish daughter with a high Jewish nose and deep black eyes. She spoke softly and elegantly as would a truthful aristocrat."

G.'s first appearance was [farkilt], and she suffered a terrible [durkhfal], such that, she soon had to retire from the Yiddish stage.

Bessie Thomashefsky -- "Meyn lebens-geshikhte", pp. 245-248.


 

 

 

 


 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 470.
 

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