Brpwn was born on 15 December 1902 in Warsaw, Poland.

Her father was a merchant of old iron.

She completed a folkshul and learned Yiddish with a teacher.

As a child she acted in a dramatic union, where her older brother is a member. Afterwards she traveled around with "amateurs" across small villages until she ran home to Vienna, where she was taken into the Yiddish theatre as a chorus singer .

Later Brown was taken in as a chorus singer by Rukhl Axelrad in Czernowitz. From there Sarah Kanner took her to Rumania, where she acted until 1918. Then she was engaged to Segalesco's troupe, and after that in 1919 she married Morris Brown, and followed the same path as her husband.

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