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"Fareinikte trupe (United
Troupe)" with the following "role-occupations": "Motl" --
Jacob Libert, "Shifra" -- Minnie Gurewitz, "David" --
Herman Serotsky, "Dina'le" -- Sonia Edelman, "Getzel" --
Leyzer Zhelazo, "Birnbaum" -- Adolf Berman, "Esther" --
Reginska (Regina Kaminski), "Rebecca" -- Barska
(-Fisher).
According to Zalmen Reyzen,
the play was staged in Russia.
In 1913 in Warsaw's "Nayer
ferlag" there was published P.'s one-acter, "Aktor,"
which was played many times by amateur groups.
In 1914 in Warsaw, in the "Nayer
ferlag," there was published P.'s four-act drama, "Eyne
fun yene," which on 29 May 1912 was staged for the first
time in Warsaw, in the "Kaminski Theatre, with Esther Rukhl Kaminska as "Yehudis Zaltsman." E. R. Kaminska
also had the play performed many times across the Polish
province, and on 16 July 1912 -- with a dramatic section
in Lublin in the "Hazmir" hall, under the direction of
Jacob Waxman.
On 9 December 1921 the play, during the visit of the composer to America, was
staged through her in New York's "Lipzin Theatre" with
Jennie Valiere in the role of "Yehudis."
About a strange production
of the play, A. Almi recalls:
"Noah [Prilutski] had ...
recommended me to her, that I should rewrite for her [P.'s]
play, ...where it was depicted a Jewish prostitute, and
the Jewish underworld. ... We could try to
oystsuprubirn the play... Indeed, on the Jewish
underworld. One of the underworld characters, who had
lived in this house [on Genshe gasse], Chatzkele
Spiegelglass, a "rabbi" from Keshene-gnvim, had proposed
that we -- the neighbors, so-called -- by ourselves
create a "theatre," indeed stage the play in the
courtyard, and each of the neighbors should therefore
pay some groshn, and the money should go to the poor
kimpetorins of Genshe strasse. ...Someone, a youth,
a son of a card player, who went into a "shell" and one
kept him for a "gebildetn," had me chosen for the
prompter, and I, a youth of fifteen years of age, of
course, it was the regisseur. ...Within a few days we
were fiks and fartik to play "theatre."
There also arrived neighbors of other houses on Genshe
gasse, and they were just teyerer for a ticket,
which consisted of a white piece of paper with a number
on it.
Performed at the gate of the
large courtyard and -- it was at once a play! -- the
"actors" had played in a natural way, authentic,
realistic, since each was in his true role. The role of
the prostitute had been played by a well-experienced
prostitute, who used to serve the street..."
In 1914 in the collection
"Di naye teg", there was published P.'s one-act farce
"Madam Steinberg" (may have been a personification of
the Yiddish actress Fannie Vadya Epstein.)
F. also had composed a drama
in four acts, "Er un zi," which had been advertised in
print, but was never published.
P.'s fate since the outbreak
of the Second World War is not known.
P.'s published plays:
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Paula R., Trayhayt, a
dramatic scene in one act; First book, pp. 7-28.
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Paula Prilutski (Paula
R.), Dramen I, Yerusha (Motil der shuster), a drama
in 4 acts [published in "Goldene funken," Warsaw
1907[?]; "Nayer ferlag," Warsaw 1912 [78 pp.]
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Paula Prilutski (Paula
R.), Dramen II, Aktor, a dramatic etude in 1 act, "Nayer
ferlag," Warsaw 1913 [17 pp.]
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Paula Prilutski (Paula
R.), Eyne fun yene, a drama in 4 acts, "Nayer ferlag,"
Warsaw 1914 [104 pp.]
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Paula Prilutski (Paula
R.), Madam Steinberg, a farce [in one act],
[published in "Di naye teg," Warsaw Tre"d (1914).
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Z. Reyzen -- "Lexicon
of Yiddish Literature," V. II, pp. 841-842.
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B. Gorin -- "History
of Yiddish Theatre," V. II, p. 281.
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Israel Zohn -- "Yerusha,"
"Moment," Warsaw, 1 (14) August 1912.
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L. S. Biely -- "Eyne
fun yene," "Yidtgblat," N. Y., 16 December 1921.
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