M. was born in September
1893 in Bucharest, Romania. Her parents were the actors
Jacob and Betty Bleichman. Already at age ten she acted
in children's roles in plays and vaudeville together
with the itinerant troupes of her parents in Rumania,
Bukovina and Galicia. She received a private education
in Romanian, French and German. She had, at the age of
fifteen, together with her parents and her sister Mina
(Axelrad), immigrated to Berlin and acted there for two
years in the Yiddish theatre with a local troupe, then
she acted in young and soubrette roles in Paris,
Antwerp, Vienna, London and across Galicia.
In 1912 she married
journalist and theatrical Dr. Avraham Margolin, and was taken in
to act in London's Pavilion Theatre, and then she
traveled across the English provincial cities under the
leadership of Moshkovitsh. She also had the opportunity
to act a season with Jacob P. Adler.
In 1920 M. immigrated with
her family to America, and here she acted with itinerant
troupes in the eastern cities in Canada until the
western and southern cities. In March 1924 she was taken
in as a member of the union, and since then until the
1929-30 season has acted as a prima donna in Chicago's
Yiddish theatre.
Sh. E. from
Dr. A. Margolin. |
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