Photographers
Ivan Busatt Studio
Sitter
Helen Beda, 1897 - August 8, 1985
Date
unknown
Type
Portrait
Medium
Photograph
Credit Line
The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance
Testimony
"Helen was born in 1897 in Czestochowa, Poland. She and her family
moved to London and there, Helen joined a chorus in the Yiddish
theatre. Her first role was as “Tsinele” in Solotorefsky's "Der
yeshive bokhur (The Yeshiva Boy)," at the time of the guest
appearance of Jacob Silbert.
Helen was then engaged in
Paris by Axelrod where she had the opportunity to perform
with guest star Jacob Liebert. From Paris she went to
America, where she spent one season playing with Joseph
Shoengold in the Lyric Theatre in Brooklyn, and the rest of
the time elsewhere appearing in Chicago as "Meyte" in
Hirshbein’s "Puste kretshme (The Idle Inn)" with Jacob
Ben-Ami."
In 1928-9 Helen performed in
Boston, and in 1929-30 she played in Newark for Bernard Elving."
Source of Testimony
Zalmen Zylbercweig -- "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre,"
Volume 1, p. 159, 1931.