Photographers
unknown
Sitter
Michal Michalesko, November 26, 1884 - April 28, 1957
Date
unknown
Type
Portrait
Medium
Photograph
Credit Line
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Testimony
"Mr. Michalesko, a native of Russia, made his first stage
appearance at the age of twelve. He played in [Yiddish] theatres
in Russia, Poland, South America, and in London and Paris.
He was brought to the United
States by the late Boris Thomashefsky and made his debut
here in 1921.
He appeared in Yiddish
operettas in Brooklyn, the Bronx and the Lower East Side of
Manhattan. With Alexander Olshanetsky and Louis Goldberg he
leased the Public Theatre at Second Avenue and Fourth Street
in 1931 for use as a legitimate Yiddish playhouse.
He established a Yiddish
stage at the Wilshire-Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles in 1952."
Source of Testimony
-- "Michal Michalesko, Yiddish Actor, 72," New York Times,
April 30, 1957