Lives in the Yiddish Theatre
SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE Yiddish THEATRE
aS DESCRIBED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"

1931-1969
 

Roseta Bialis
 

B. was born on 28 November 1896 in Białystok, Poland. Her father was the owner of a dry goods store. She went to cheder and public school. When she was eight, they came to the father in Cleveland, United States, where she graduated from elementary school. In Cleveland she worked three years as an instructor for Singer, the sewing firm.

At a function, she happened to recite and sing, and [from that] she was invited on the spot to a dramatic club where she appeared at Reyzen's "rehearsal." Afterwards, actors David Baratz, Willy Schwartz and Esther Waxman took her to Cleveland and, due to a dispute with an actress, she was given the opportunity to appear as “Ettie” in Gordin’s “Kreutzer Sonata”.

In 1912 she was employed one season by Sidney Hart in Cleveland, in 1913 and 1914 she performed in Toronto as a soubrette, in 1915 and 1916 in Detroit, in 1917-8 in Chicago, in 1918-9 in Philadelphia, in 1919-21 in Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco, in 1922 at the  Amphion Theatre, in New York with Shachten, in 1923 at the Lyric Theatre, Bronx, in 1928-9 in Detroit and in 1929-30 at the Hopkinson Theatre in Brooklyn.

In her last years, Bialis switched to dramatic roles and had the opportunity to act with Kessler, Blank and Satz.


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  • Jacob Kirschenbaum – New faces on our stages, “Morning Journal”, N.Y., 28 October 1927.

 


 

 

 

 


 


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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 1, page 157.
 

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