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SYNOPSIS OF "GABRI AND THE WOMEN"
[Yiddish: Gabri un di froyn"]
by David Pinski

 

The synopsis below is from a new theatre group, the "New Stage,"
which had high ideals for the types of Yiddish plays they wished to state.

This play opened at the Garden Theatre, NYC, on April 4, 1916.


Act 1.

The act is divided into two scenes. One is the study of Solomon Kaus (Jacob P. Adler), and the other a saloon belonging to Jeannette (Dora Weissman) and De Jerbelé (Solomon Manne).


Act II.

The audience room of Cardinal Richelieu's palace. 


 
 

Act III.

The first scene is a room in Jeannette's house, and Suzanne comes to see her to intervene on behalf

 

 

 

 

 




Photograph courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York.

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