Entertainers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Famous Troupe Amuses the Sick at a Famous Sanatorium, 1929 August 4
Item
Identifier: B296.01.0001.00002.00023
Abstract
Newspaper clipping of a photograph of a traveling theater company's performance at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) in August 1929. Caption misidentifies director Maurice Schwarz's New York company, the Yiddish Art Theatre, as the [by-then defunct] Jewish Art Theatre. JCRS Sanatorium superintendent Herman Schwatt, M.D. is shown in the upper row, second from left. The newpaper clipping is from the Jewish Daily Forward, and was found in a scrapbook created by singer and actor...
Dates:
1929 August 4
May Arno Schwatt Theater Company, 1914
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Identifier: B296.01.0001.00001.00036.00001
Abstract
May Arno Schwatt and her traveling theater company. May Arno Schatt was the sister-in-law of Dr. Charles Spivak, a founder and executive director of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Schwatt and her theater company performed at the JCRS. She was born in Pitava, Russia to Saul and Chaya Shamus Charsky. Her mother died when she was young and she immigrated to America with a sister in the early 1880s to join her father and older sister Jennie Charsky at the Rosenheym Jewish...
Dates:
1914