Famous Troupe Amuses the Sick at a Famous Sanatorium, 1929 August 4

Item

Identifier: B296.01.0001.00002.00023

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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 May Arno, Dr. Schwatt's wife. Title: A Famous Troupe Amuses the Sick at a Famous Sanatorium.

Dates

1929 August 4

Creator

Arno, May (May Arno Schwatt) (Person)

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Famous Troupe Amuses the Sick at a Famous Sanatorium

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection contains two scrapbooks that document the career of May Arno, who traveled as an actress and singer with a theater company in the early years of the twentieth century. May Arno Schwatt's brother-in-law, Dr. Charles Spivak, was a founder and an executive director of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society.