:L. was born in 1886 in Skamarak, a hamlet near Butshatsh, Galicia, to very religious parents. Her father--a name in a liquor brewery, there came later a position in the shtetl Monasterzhisk, where L. learned in a cheder and she finished later four classes of a folkshul. Due to a Potter's death she was forced to search for income and became a [lern]-girl for a seamstress.

In 1903 she was brought b her brother to New York, where she worked with women's clothing, and she often attended Yiddish theatre. In 1907 she went to Toronto, where she entered into the local "Progressive Dramatic Club", and she also performed in part-time roles with the guest-starring professional Yiddish troupes. Here she became engaged by Michaelson for his troupe in Buffalo (Michaelson, Hollander, Aba Shoengold et al.), and she acted then in a Toronto troupe (Fishl Zinger, Yakov Goldstein et al), who also guest-starred in Montreal.

She returned to New York....L., as a non-union member, could not come close to the professional Yiddish stage. She acted only in a "literary dramatic club", and then in a "progressive dramatic club", where (together with Tenenholz, Dubinsky, Weisberg, Goldstein and Henrietta Schnitzer), she performed in Peretz's one-acters and in the plays of Hirshbein, Zudermann, Hauptmann, et al. First when Louis Schnitzer opened the 27th Street Theatre, she was engaged there and acted for two seasons, having the opportunity to perform with Ben-Ami and Schildkraut, later she acted in the same theatre (Director: Schwartz) in small roles until 1924.