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Max Brin
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B. was born on 16 July
1884 in Lodz, Poland, to pious parents. He learned in
modern cheders and in a private school. He worked in a
manufacturing business. The Ebenholtz chorus recommended
him as a chorus singer in the Apollo Theatre under the
direction of Kaminski-Berman, but thereafter as he was
in Lodz when it became forbidden to act in Yiddish
theatre, B. returned as an employee in a manufacturing
business.
In 1905 B. entered into
Zandberg's in the Grand Theatre, where he acted in small
roles. In 1906 he traveled on a tour across Poland with
the united troupe of the Muranow Theatre. In 1908 he
acted with Julius Adler in a tour across Russia. In 1909
he acted in Belgium, Paris, London and Buenos Aires,
where he also had the opportunity to act with
Moshkovitch, then he returned to Russia and at the end
of 1913, for a short time he acted with Julius Adler in
Warsaw. Due to the war, he became |
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mobilized, he fled to
Lemberg, where he acted until the Revolution, and he was
engaged in Warsaw to the "Venus" theatre and then in the
Skala with Adler in Lodz. B. then organized by himself a
tour across the [Rand] area, participating later in the
Tselmeister-Picon troupe in Warsaw, guest-starring
across Poland by himself and with Kanievska-Breitman,
participating in Adler's dramatic troupe across Poland,
traveling then with Kanievska-Breitman to South Africa,
South America, and he then came back to Poland, where he
acted for a short time, then in Vienna, 1928 he was in
Romania, Bessarabia and Vienna. |
B. also writes from
time to time actual couplets from well-known
melodies.
Specialty: Comical
characters. |
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