Kalich played a number of roles in these landmark works, even beating out the other male stars for a chance to play the coveted role of Hamlet.

Yiddish New York theatergoers were familiar with the plays of Ibsen, Tolstoy, and even Shaw long before these works played on Broadway, and the high calibre of Yiddish language acting became clear as Yiddish actors began to cross over to Broadway, first with Jacob Adler's tour de force performance as Shylock in a 1903 production of The Merchant of Venice, but also with performers such as Bertha Kalich, who moved back and forth between the city's leading Yiddish-language and English-language stages.

He was responsible for bringing Bertha Kalich to America.

While still barely a teen, Kalich sang in the chorus for La Traviata in the Lviv Polish Theatre Opera.

During this period of her life, Kalich had been performing in Polish, Russian, and German, but when Gimpel's leading lady left for America, Kalich became his prima donna, winning the title role in Avrom Goldfaden ’ s operetta Shulamis.

After a series of whilwindd performances in Budapest, Goldfaden offered her a permanent position with his company, and Kalich left later that year for Romania.

His newly founded Thalia Theater was looking for fresh talent, and there Kalich appeared in Di Vilde Kenigin ( The wild queen ) and a Yiddish production of La Belle Hélène ( Beautiful Helen ).

In 1900, she starred as Freydenyu in the premiere of Gordin ’ s God, Man and the Devil, and that prompted Gordin to write the role of Etty in The Kreutzer Sonata and the title role in his Sappho and Phaon especially for Kalich.

Kalich left New York for Hollywood in 1914, where she appeared in a few noteable films, including a reprise of her hit Broadway role in Marta of the Lowlands.

Historians estimate that, during her career, Kalich performed more than 125 different roles in seven different languages.

Success was short-lived, however, and by 1915, Kalich was frequently returning to Yiddish roles to supplement her income.

Though she would go on to work with heavy-hitters like producers, Lee Shubert and Arthur Hopkins, her Broadway career had already begun to fade. Bertha Kalich, circa 1900.

By the late 1920s, Kalich ’ s eyesight was failing, and she gradually became blind.

" But, nevertheless, in the prime of her career at the beginning of the twentieth century, Kalich played an important role in efforts to improve the artistic standards of the Yiddish theater, whose status she also helped to raise with her success with English-speaking audiences.

Even at this tender age Kalich already had a major career in at least three countries and four languages.

Some performers were well-respected enough to move back and forth between the Yiddish theatre and Broadway, including Bertha Kalich and Jacob Adler.

Bertha Kalich as Miriam Friedlander in The Kreutzer Sonata ( 1906 ), adapted from the Yiddish play Jacob Gordin by Langdon Mitchell

Some performers were well-respected enough to move back and forth between the Yiddish theatre and Broadway, including Bertha Kalich and Jacob Adler.

In her new home, Kalich set out to emphasize her dramatic skills over her musical talents, working hard as a proponent of the Yiddish theater movement, hoping to help the theatres gain credibility in addition to notoriety.

These productions made it out of the Yiddish playhouses, going all the way to Broadway, and establishing Kalich as a household name.

Bertha Kalich as Miriam Friedlander in The Kreutzer Sonata, a play based on a story by Leo Tolstoy, adapted from Yiddish play Jacob Gordin by Langdon Mitchell.

According to the Hussite custom he gave the biblical name of Chalice ( Kalich in Czech ) to this new possession, and henceforth adopted the signature of Žižka of the Chalice.

Kalich was born Beylke Kalakh in what was then Austria-Hungary, the only child of Solomon Kalakh, a poor brush manufacturer and amateur violinist.

Kalich married Leopold Spachner in 1890 at the age of 16.

In addition to her work with Shakespeare, Kalich ’ s performance in Leon Kobrin ’ s The East Side Ghetto won enormous critical praise and increased Kalich's fanbase outside of the Jewish community.

Along with her male counterpart, Boris Thomashefksy ( 1868 – 1939 ) Kalich became a darling of the press, admired by her fans and critics alike.

The Department acted as a catalyst for the admission of Africans to the University: as early as 1925 a limited number were admitted to the vacation course in African Studies.

He writes: " It haunted me and I must have acted Harishchandra to myself times without number.

Opponents of this view include revisionist historians and a number of post – Cold War and otherwise dissident Soviet historians including Roy Medvedev, who argues that although " one could list the various measures carried out by Stalin that were actually a continuation of anti-democratic trends and measures implemented under Lenin ... in so many ways, Stalin acted, not in line with Lenin's clear instructions, but in defiance of them ".

The Factory Act 1844 acted more against these industrialists than it did against the traditional stronghold of the Conservatives, the landed gentry, by restricting the number of hours that children and women could work in a factory, and setting rudimentary safety standards for machinery.

In more stringent sets of rules, indicating anything about the form of the phrase is prohibited, even the number of words, so that only the meaning may be acted out.

However, a number of Republican lawmakers acted to amend, delay or defeat renewal of the Act for various reasons.

The presence of a number of such appointed delegates acted to elevate voting opposition to a republican consensus.

In later years, Karloff hosted and acted in a number of television series, most notably Thriller, Out Of This World, and The Veil, but the last of these was never actually transmitted, and it only came to light in the 1990s.

During his career, Montand acted in a number of American motion pictures as well as on Broadway.

Later, the central multiplexers in Columbus were replaced with PDP-8 minicomputers, and the PDP-8s were connected to a DEC PDP-15 minicomputer that acted as switches so a phone number was not tied to a particular destination host.

* Appears on the Chef Tony infomercial endorsing My Rotisserie in a number of acted scenes where he plays poker with his friends, while singing the praises of the kitchen appliance.

By the 1840s, there were a number of proposals to build railways in the region, and the River Don Navigation Company acted to ensure they would remain in business.

Key acted on a dream he had of meeting Toscanini by starting the Arturo Toscanini Society to release a number of " unapproved " live performances by Toscanini.

Cosby has also acted in a number of films.

After Wood's death, Julian Herbage acted as de facto principal administrator of The Proms for a number of years, as a freelance employee after his retirement from the BBC, with assistance from such staff as Edward Clark and Kenneth Wright.

As realistic androids and humanoid robots do not currently exist in a form readily available to the consumer, this fetish can only be acted upon in a limited number of ways.

If the suicidal person is not acting out of his own free will, then assistance is punishable by any of a number of homicide offences that the criminal code provides for, as having " acted through another person " (§ 25, section 1 of the German criminal code, usually called " mittelbare Täterschaft ").

He was also said to have acted as an interpreter between the Jewish community and the Russian authorities on a number of occasions.

He was also an active member of the student theatre group " Dramashop " where he both acted in and directed a number of plays.

Ramiro also acted with severity against latrones ( thieves ) whose number nonetheless grew the civil discord of his reign, and against magos, presumably the pagans still rooted amongst the more isolated settlements.

From 1986 to 1989, Cheung acted in a number of movies that are considered as Hong Kong classics by film critics and Asian movie fans.

Since 1983 Holmgren has acted through his company Holmgren Design Services as consultant for a large number of projects, examples of which can be found in the report Trees on Treeless Plains: Revegetation Manual for the Volcanic Landscapes of Central Victoria ( 1994 ).

He also wrote a number of plays, the most successful of which was The Night of the Party ( 1901 ), for which he also directed, acted the lead role, designed the scenery and painted the advertising poster.

52 aircraft acted as tugs for an equal number of CG-4A Waco gliders carrying 155 troops, a bulldozer, sixteen 57-millimeter ( 6-pounder ) antitank guns, and 25 small vehicles.

Back in the city of the stars, he acted in a number of movies.