L. was born on 5 May 1880 in London, England. His parents (born in Galicia) were the owners of a hotel, in which Yiddish actors used to live. He completed public school and sang in temple. When his father was business manager of a Yiddish theatre in a club in Hundzvitsh 10, L. was given a children's role there by Adler, debuting in the play "Meshugene oys libe."

When the greater part of the actors left London, L. together with his brothers and sister: Manny, Annie, Alex and Emilia, acted in 1886 in the play "Bal tshuva" together with the popular actors Solomon and Annie Manne, Leibush Gold and Jacob Katzman, then they acted in "Der royber fun yarmilov", "Doctor Almasado" and other plays, guest-starring later also across the English province (Manchester, Liverpool and Lidz).

In 1898 L.'s entire family was brought to America by Moshe Zilberman and they performed in the Oriental Theatre in "Shulamis", then they acted in Newark, Boston, Philadelphia,  and Chicago and then returned to New York, where they performed in the Grand Theatre on Grand Street with 13 productions a day (from 11 in the morning to 12 at night) in "Shulamis" and other Goldfaden operettas (charging a ten-cents admission fee), and later in other Yiddish vaudeville houses.

In 1907 he went with his brother Manny to London, where they acted for two years in English vaudeville, then they returned to