M. was born on 15 April 1883 in Brest-Litovsk, Polish Lithuania. M.'s not-well-to-do parents had wanted to make him a craftsman, but he became exited for the stage because already at the age of twelve he sang with the Brisk cantor, and at the same time in the woman's choir of the Yiddish theatre. At age fifteen M. already performed with a Yiddish troupe in which he sang "[heyse babelekh]" in Goldfaden's "Bobe yakhne".

In 1903 M. came to America and entered into the Metropolitan Singer Hall in Brownsville, where he received fifteen cents a night to sing in the chorus and to act in episodic roles. M. wanted however to enter into one of the former vaudeville theatres, and he had to become a member in the vaudeville union. He almost was able to pay the fifty dollars entrance dues, and M. became a dyer until he could come up with the entire sum. He then became a member in the union and began to act in vaudeville.

Later M. acted in legitimate theatre in Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Boston, Detroit, Cleveland, and in Canada: in Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg.

In 1924 M. acted in London and in other European cities. In 1926 he was in New York's Lenox Theatre, from 1927-29 in Philadelphia, guest-starring in the summertime in London, 1929-30 in the Bronx's Prospect Theatre, and later across the American province.

Sh. E.