G. was born in 1893 in Kiev, Ukraine.

His father was a businessman, who moved to Warsaw, where G. completed the real gymnasium and two semesters in a veterinarian institute.

G. entered into the dramatic section of "Hazamir," where he acted together with Mark Schweid and Sara Fibich, and in 1911 he began to act professionally with Gershanovitsh in Vitebsk, performing as "Beanushl"  in "Pintele yid."

Then he acted for three years with Guzik, and during wartime he participated there in Yiddish operettas in Russian. G. then entered into the Russian operetta of Krutshinin, where he acted for a year-and-a-half, became mobilized, finding himself in German captivity, and he participated there from time to time in German operetta productions.

In 1909 G. entered into Radom in Charnetsky's Polish operetta troupe, and there he put on "Shulamis" in Polish, then he found together with the Polish actor Madeus Wolawski a Polish revue theatre "Mirage." A half year later G. went on tour with Esther Rukhl Kaminska in Zygmunt Turkow's troupe, entering the Central Theatre, where he participated for four years in the dramas and

comedy offerings, one year in Vilna with Morevsky, became a co-founder of the "Azazel" revue theatre, in which he joined as an actor and conférencier, traveled around with concerts across Poland and also over the bathhouse places of Western Galicia, and then he returned to "Azazel".

G. also participated in the film "Tkies khaf".
 

M. E.