Schwartz, Maurice, 1890-1960
Person
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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