Born on 13 August, 1883 in Kiev, Ukraine. His parents were merchants. W. studied in a cheder and also took private lessons in Jewish studies and Russian.

In 1900 he met actors and started participating in “amateur” performances in Ukrainian. In 1904 he is employed by Korolenko, in whose drama school he had studied, as a dramatic actor and went under the name of Lazar Bielogorin.

Because of the pogrom in 1905, he immigrated to his uncle in America, where he joined the “Progressive Dramatic Club” whose manager was Joel Entin, working for Kaples, later with new shirts[?].
In 1914 he was invited by Peretz Sandler to the Yiddish theatre in Poland. In Paris, however, because of the war, he was arrested and when he returned to America, he performed for three years, every now and then, in Russian, English and Ukrainian.

In 1917 he joined Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre where he played for two years. In 1919 he performed in Detroit, Cleveland and vaudeville performances in Philadelphia. In 1920 he was employed by Anshel Schorr in Philadelphia where he played for four years. In 1925-6 he appeared at the McKinley Theatre in the Bronx, in 1927-8 in Chicago, and in 1928-30 at the Yiddish Art Theatre.

M. E.