The late United States Ambassador to France, Myron T. Herrick, was revealed as a patron of the Yiddish stage in an article published in the “Jewish Morning Journal.” The author, Jacob Kirschenbaum, relates that in 1915 following his return from Paris, the late Mr. Herrick consented to the proposal of his Jewish friend, the late Harry Bernstein, who was prominent in political circles in Cleveland, to construct a theatre for a Yiddish group in Cleveland.
Mr. Herrick caused the erection of a theatre at 55th Street and Woodland Avenue, Cleveland. A Yiddish troupe was taken there from New York, with David Levinson as the principal actor. The enterprise did not meet with success but the actors and other employes received their full remuneration, the money being furnished secretly by the late Ambassador. The theatre was closed at the end of the season.
The opening of the Talmud Torah building, of Bayonne, N. J., by the Uptown Congregation Ohab Sholem Anshe Sfard Synagogue, was celebrated with a ball on the night of April 6th.
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