Born in Odessa, Ukraine. She studied in a gymnasium during the Bolshevik Revolution, and disregarded that their house had been confiscated by the powers-that-be. She and her brothers were given to their studies. From childhood on she loved poetry and with every opportunity she performed with declarations, striving for the theatre.

After completing the gymnasium, she entered into the dramatic school of Laurence and Michailovsky, and after completing the school, she was engaged in a summer theatre and took on small roles in the plays of Chekhov., Gogol, and "a further history" of Shakespeare. A year later, she was engaged in Glogolin's art troupe, where she received a greater role in Lope De Vega's "Dem gertners hunt", performing in the role of "Cecil" in Oscar Wilde's "Di vikhtikeyt tsu zeyn ernst", "Hanele" and Hauptmann's "Di farzunkene glok", and other plays. Shortly thereafter, she legally left  the Soviet-Ukraine and illegally arrived in Poland, and from there went away to Berlin, and with the help of her family arrived in America. here she performed in Russian in New York and Philadelphia (as "Dthe daughter") in Strindberg's "The Father" with Dr. Paul Baratov, who recommended her to Rudolf Schildkraut in his theatre on 180th Street in the Bronx, where she acted in Yiddish as "Rivkale" in Ash's "God of Vengeance" and the main young role in Dymov's "Zeyn letste gelibte". She also repetirt Strindberg's "Der shturem", which was not staged. Then L. became engaged by Azro-Alomis for the "Vilna Troupe", with