The nine-year-old Jewish theater in Vilna, capital of Soviet Lithuania, has been granted professional status, the English-language Journal of the Soviet Embassy here reported today.
According to the Journal, the troupe consists of 40 actors and musicians, among them students, workers, doctors, engineers and housewives who have taken up theatrics as a hobby. The Journal reported that the audiences for the performances of the Yiddish-language theater total 20,000 persons a year.
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