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The Funeral of Moses Horowitz |
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1,500 AT
DRAMATISTS' BURIAL. |
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hundred members of the Hebrew Actors' Union attended yesterday
morning the funeral of Moses Horowitz, the aged Jewish
actor-playwright, who died at the Montefiore Home on Friday. The
services were held in Liberty Hall, 257 East Houston Street. The
honorary pallbearers were selected from the members of the
Stanislauer Lodge of the Independent Order of Brith Abram, and the
interment took place in Washington Cemetery. It was related by the
friends of the dead man that in his palmy days Horowitz made plenty
of money, which he spent as fast as it came in. Unlike the majority
of his thrifty race on the East Side, he made no provision against
old age or rainy days. He came here from Roumania twenty-eight years ago and made his first success as a playwright with a three-act drama in Yiddish, called "Tisa Eslar," which was founded on a tragedy which occurred in his native village, Stanislau, Roumania. Horowitz was a most prolific play writer and rarely took more than two days to work out his ideas. Sometimes he had been known to give out the first two acts of a new play for rehearsal and finish writing the third act at the back of the stage. He leaves a widow,
who is an inmate of the Home of Daughters of Jacob on East Broadway.
Years ago he was one of the best-dressed men on the Lower East Side
and drove about in a smart buggy with a groom in livery at his back. |
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List courtesy of YIVO (Yiddish Institute for Jewish Research).
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