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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 (the others --
the late actress Regina Lubarotovska. Biography in the
second volume of the "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre",
pp. 1012-13) 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-Herman Berman and
Trilling, who had acted in Lodz in a small
garden with an open stage (on Konstantinergasse), and
here she also received small roles.
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
toured with the troupe of Rose Arnstein (Yablonski,
Shliferstein, Grinstein, Glickman, Keyzerovitsh et al.),
and with the troupe under the direction of Julius Oskar
(Kutner, Yakubovitsh, Glikman, et al.), acting in the
second roles in operetta repertoire. Initially in a
provincial troupe (L. Rabinovitsh, her sister 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.), |