L. was born on 4 February 1878 in Lodz, Poland. Her father was a tailor,  a musician, who used to study with his two daughters various melodies.

Through actor David Fakhler, who heard her sing, L. was taken into the chorus of his troupe, which performed in Bzhezshin (Brzeziny). Then L. entered into the chorus of the Kaminski troupe, Herman Berman and Trilling, who had performed in Lodz in a small garden with an open stage (on Konstantinergasse) and here she also received small roles.

Now L. toured in the province with a troupe (Tshizhik, Trontshik, Bleifeld), which performed across various cities of Poland in the shops of the feyerlesher states, etc. Later she went around with the troupe of Rose Arnstein (Yablonski, Shliferstein, Grinstein, Glickman, Keyzerovitsh et al.), acting between roles in operetta repertoire. First in a provincial troupe (L. Rabinovitsh, Regina Lubartovska, Max Brin, M. Myodovnik, Yakov Perlman et al.), which performed in Bendzin, and L. went over to prima donna roles.

In 1905 the troupe disbanded and L. entered into the Lodz Apollo Theatre (Julius Adler, Titelman, Silberkasten, Rabinovitsh, et al.), then she went around for several years with various troupes across Russia, White Russia and the Ukraine (with Lindenfeld, Anshel Goldberg, Mintses, Bronetsky et al.) in the movie theatres