[where] she organized with
her husband and Isidor Zuckerman a troupe for the "Salon
Garibaldi," and after that they again made a tour across
the province, later with Max Marienhof, after his return
from North Africa, and H. joined the first Yiddish
small-arts theatre that brought in the dramatist and
stage director Mark Arnstein. The troupe (Clara and
Joseph Haberman, Max Marienhof, Miriam Lerer and Joseph
Parnes) visited the entire Yiddish province and
colonies, later in a tour with Mark Arnstein across the
larger cities of Argentina, where she performed,
together with M. Arnstein, in his one-acter, "When the
Devil Laughs." H. then traveled with her husband to
Montevideo (Uruguay), where, for the first time they
played Yiddish theatre, performing the operetta, "Song
of Songs," and afterwards returned to Argentina, where
she traveled with her husband to North Africa. Receiving
permission from the Yiddish [Hebrew] Actors' Union, she
joined the troupe in Buffalo (New York), then in other
provincial cities In 1927 she traveled to Los Angeles,
where she played with local troupes (Fannie Reinhardt,
Sam Morris, Adolph Freeman and Moshe-Dovid Waxman). In
1929 she traveled with the troupe of Jacob Berlin and
Mollie Cohn to San Francisco, then played again in Los
Angeles with various troupes, alone put together a
troupe and performed in the Gordin play, "Khasye" and
"Di shkhithe," and Dymow's "Shema yisroel," and traveled
again, returning to San Francisco, where she directed,
together with her husband, with the first Yiddish radio
program in San Francisco and also played from time to
time in Yiddish theatre, and took, with her husband, to
performing with word concerts across America and Canada.
In 1934 she returned to San Francisco and again revived
the Yiddish radio program and participated in
productions with the local powers.
Becoming interested and
excited for the American actress Cornelia Otis Skinner's
monodrama program, she decided to do that in Yiddish.
Her husband adapted several dramas for her, as
monodramas (plays for one person), and she performed in
Kobrin's "Back to his People (Tsurik tsu zayn folk),"
Gordin's "Khasye," and "The Oath (Di shkhithe)," and
Pinski's "The Mother," as well as in small comedies by
Moyshe Nadir, Der tunkler, B. Kovner. H. toured with the
repertoire across the larger cities, and the small
faraway Jewish communities of North America, Canada,
Mexico and Cuba. (Barbizon Plaza in New York, Town Hall
in Philadelphia, Embassy in Los Angeles, Jessa [sp] in
Montreal, Victory in Toronto, and also in locales such
as the Hillel Foundation, universities, at B'nai Brith,
Hadassah, Workmen's Circle, Farband, United Jewish
Appeal, Israel bonds, Zionist organizations, Pioneer
Women and the Council of Jewish Women, also in the
"Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim" in Baltimore, where we heard
theatre in Yiddish for the first time.)
In 1963 she returned to Los
Angeles, where she played during the guest-appearance of
Fraydele Oysher, as "the grandmother" in "A Cantoress on
the Sabbath," and since then has participated from time
to time in performances with various organizations.
Sh. E. from
her husband Joseph Haberman. |