L. was born on 14 February ([ester-tenyt]) 1889 in Samara, Russia. Her father was a tailor. As a child of seven she immigrated with her parents to the town of Zdunska-Wola (Poland), where she learned Yiddish from her father. As a child she worked with socks/stockings, then in a textile factory as a spooler, later moving over to Lodz where she worked as a stacker, and at a factory drew attention with her beautiful voice. She also participated on Friday nights in the "plays", which were arranged by the workers she knew, take part in the arranged Purim plays, and at the end she would [1904] enter as a chorus singer into the troupe of Sh. Krause, with whom she toured over Poland and Russia until she went over, together with Zhelazo, as a chorus singer and in episodic roles, to Fiszon in his troupe, and she followed with the wandering ways of the tactics of the Yiddish actor in Russia: She participated under her maiden name, Glazer, as a chorus singer and actress in the troupes of Meyerson, Shwartsbard, Zhelazo, Bernstein, Zhitomirski, Sam Adler, Zandberg, Genfer, Sabsey and Kompaneyets in Warsaw's Muranow Theatre, where she performed in her first great role ("Beynushl" in Thomashefsky's operetta "Dos pintele yid"). From here she went over to the Lodz "United Troupe" which was under the leadership of Titelman, where she had the opportunity to be the first to create the role of "the daughter" in Itskhok Katzenelson's  "Caricatures." Later she entered into the "United Troupe" with Ester Rokhl Kaminska in charge, and she participated in a tour across the main cities of the then Russia.