R. was born in Nikolayev, Kherson Gubernia, Ukraine. She learned Yiddish with a private teacher and Russian in a folkshul. From childhood she manifested a request to sing and declaim, and a desire to act in theatre, and she acted in children's roles in Goldfaden's "The Sacrifice of Isaac" and Lateiner's "Joseph and his Brothers."

R. became a member in the "Folksbiene" and acted in Hirshbein's "Frost-blumen," and under the direction of Jacob Rotbaum and David Licht in Sholem Asch's "Uncle Moses" (as "The Mother"), Sholem Aleichem's "Dos groyse gevins (The Big Winner)" (as "Di mel-yidene"), in Leon Kobrin's "Riverside Drive" et al.

R. also had acted in English in "Family Upstairs," "Meydkhen in Uniform," "Angel Street" et al.

R. is a member of the Yiddish Actors' Union and had acted in the Second Avenue Theatre (Director Irving Jacobson and Irving Grossman) in Siegel's "The Wedding March"; later, under the management of the Actor's Union, in "Unzer teater" in the Labor Temple under the direction of Nathan Goldberg in Kalmanowitz's "Gelt iz nit alts", and later  under the direction of Ben-Tsion Witler in Libin's "Children Don't Forget", later in the "Educational Alliance" in Freiman's "Di fraylekhe mame," and "Dos fraylekhe shnayderl," and in the 1958-59 season, in the same theatre, under Max Bozyk and Sheftel Zak in "Di ershte shvalb" by I. Lash and "Parnusah" by Chone Gotesfeld. R. also performed as a singer in various events for Yiddish organizations.

Sh. E. from Mordechai Yachson.

• Rose Lee -- Problems of a Shrinking American Yiddish Theatre, "Show Business," N.Y., March 26, 1951.