Photographers
unknown

Sitter
Hymie Jacobson, November 9, 1893 - January 8, 1952

Date
unknown

Type
Portrait

Medium
Photograph

Credit Line
The Yiddish Theatrical Alliance

Testimony
"Hymie was born on 9 November 1895 in Chicago, America. His parents were Yiddish actors. He finished public and high school.

As a four-year-old child, with his parents, he began to act in children's roles in Cincinnati, and as such acted until he reached the age of fifteen. His first role as an adult was at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia (1917) as the comedian in the play "Fabia romani."

In 1918 he acted at the People's Theatre. In 1919-20 he was a buff-comedian at the Second Avenue Theatre. In 1921 he played at Thomashefsky's National Theatre, in 1927 at the Public Theatre, in 1928-9 in Boston, and in 1929-30 he was in Chicago ..."

Source of Testimony
Zalmen Zylbercweig -- "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre," Volume 1, page 551, 1931.