The cornerstone of the new Yiddish Art Theatre, on Second Avenue and Twelfth Street, New York, will be laid Sunday afternoon at three o’clock, according to an announcement made by Mr. Louis N. Jaffe, who is financing the building which will house the Yiddish Art Theatre Players, headed by Mr. Maurice Schwartz, next season.
Civic leaders and prominent members of the theatrical profession will participate in the exercises. The cornerstone will be laid to the immediate right of the entrance doors, and in it will be placed a plaque of Abraham Goldfaden, father of the Yiddish Drama. A portrait of Peter Stuyvesant will be included in the items to be deposited in the cornerstone, because of the fact that the builder was led to undertake the venture of the Yiddish Art Theatre when he learned that the property was part of the ancient Peter Stuyvesant Estate.
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