Julius (Khanina) Nathanson
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Born on 17 July 1890 in
Pavalitch (Pavoloch), Kiev Gubernia, Ukraine. Father -- a grain
trader. Until age ten he learned in a cheder and sang
with a cantor, later becoming a lace worker in Kiev,
which is where his family moved to. Here N. sang for
several years in a chorus in Brodsky's synagogue, and
during this time, he also was an employee in a
haberdashery store, later in a hotel, and in the evening
he learned in the "handverker (trade) school".
1905 -- N. arrived with his
family in Chicago (America), where he worked for two
years in a tailor's shop, learning in an evening school
and Yiddish with a teacher, then he entered into
Glickman's Theatre as a wardrober, was a ticket taker at
Relkin's, wrote roles and held placards. fulfilling a
desire to act. He founded together with others the
"Young Men's Dramatic Club", where he became the
business manager, but due to economic conditions, he
went to St. Louis, where he joined as a singer in a
Yiddish moving picture house. He then became in
Cincinnati a prompter in a troupe (with Simon and wife,
Kroner, et al.), with whom he toured for two years
across the province, until he entered into Cleveland as
a prompter and English song singer in Bernstein's
Yiddish vaudeville.
One-and-a-half years later,
N. toured for several months as a prompter with the
troupe of Fannie Reinhardt and Benny Shoengold, and
when he performed in Washington, an actor who was to
play "Yoshke Yashkevitsh" in Sharkansky's "Khfni un
pinkhas" became sick, and N. became a replacement singer
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However he was prevented
from acting by the union, and then he toured for a
year's time with English songs across English movie
houses. With the intention of acting in Yiddish, N.
became interested in that time with the entrepreneur
Skolnick in the building of a Yiddish theatre stage in
New Haven, but, not taken into the troupe that began to
act there, N. became manager of a Yiddish troupe that
the restaurateur Wally Brider brought in each Sunday in
Haven's Grand Opera House, but with the second
production with N. acting as "Semke Lts", and went
afterwards with the troupe (Clara Young et al.) to
Chicago, where he entered into a Yiddish vaudeville
house. Later N. acted in legitimate Yiddish theatre with
Meyerovitsh in Denver's Lyric Theatre, then in Gertner's
troupe in Chicago, and with Grossman in Winnipeg, two
years directed a motion picture house in Denver, then
sang for a time in English cabarets and English
burlesque troupes, also performing with his wife Anna in
an English vaudeville act across the province and later
became manager of English vaudeville troupes. He was
engaged in New York's Liberty Theatre by Charles Groll,
and G went over in the middle of a season to the
People's Theatre, where he acted in "Susie bren",
together with Bessie Thomashefsky, and in the coming
season was put into the Union to act, later N. acting
for two seasons in the National Theatre, together with
Jacob Kalich a season as director and actor in Boston,
then a season there alone as director, directed
vaudeville for a season in New York's Grand Theatre, and
for four years was director and main actor in Boston's
Yiddish theatre.
1927-8 -- N. acted in the
Second Avenue Theatre, 1928-9 -- was director in
Philadelphia, 1930 -- guest-starred in Argentina, then
across the United States of America. 1930-31 -- acted in
Chicago's Lawndale Theatre, and then across the American
province.
N. also later was a member
in the Executive [Committee] of the Yiddish Actors
Union.
N. was a member of the
Publishing Committee of the "Lexicon of the Yiddish
Theatre".
Specialty: fat-lover.
M. E.
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B. Botwinick -- Yunge talentn oyf
der idisher bihne, "Forward", N. Y., 25 October 1918.
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Nun-tsadik [Tsuker] -- Di
derfolgreykhe debut-forshtlung fun ana un yulius natanzon, "Argentiner
tog", Buenos Aires, 21 June 1929.
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Sh. R. [Rozhansky] -- Der
ern-ovnt fun y. natanson, "Zeyn ershte nakht" fun l. freiman,
"Id. tsayt", Buenos Aires, 18 August 1929.
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G. Tsuker -- Di gast-shpiln fun
yulius natanzon in guenos aires, "Argentiner tog", Buenos Aires,
22 August 1929.
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[--] -- Der nayer star fun
glikmans palas-teater, julius natanzon shtamt fun shikago,
"Forward", Chicago, 11 October 1929.
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Y. Sigel -- "Frehlikhe teg" mith
julius natzon in londeyl theater, "Forward", Chicago, 30
September 1930.
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Kritikus -- Julius natanzon, "Di
tsayt", London, 7 May 1931.
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Kritikus -- Julius natanzon als "galitsianer
khasun", "Di tsayt", London, 18 May 1931.
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Sh. Pan [Y. Shayak] -- A por
verter vegen ludvig zats un julius natanson, "Di post", London,
1 January 1932.
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Julius Nathanson -- Vegn di
amerikaner gastroliorn in eyrope, "Literarishe bleter", Warsaw,
N' 23, 1932.
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Zishe Katz -- Vegn di amerikaner
gastroliorn in eyropa, "Literarishe bleter", Warsaw, N' 24,
1932.
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