East and West in Bałuty

East and West in Bałuty

Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1929 screening of East and West at the movie theater Bajka in Bałuty. Completed in 1923, East and West, Molly Picon's earliest film, tells the lighthearted story of a "modern" New York Jew and his energetic daughter. On their visit back to the old country, they bring the up-to-date American lifestyle to traditional Galician Jews.

Najer Folksblat no. 137

1929

Yiddish

newspaper ad

Kino-teater / Beyka / Frantsishkanska 31 / Spetsiel tsugepaste muzik / Dos bild vert ilustrirt mit a groysen khor / velkher vet oysfihren sinagogalishe un andere lider

Grandiezer yontev-program! Grester yud. film! Benayung fun gresten maysterv. in a nayer liter. bearbaytung a. n. / “Mizrekh un mayrev” / Realizatsye fun bekanten yudishen rezshiser M. Goldin, fun Maris Shvarts’s yud. kunst-teater in Niu-york / In di hoypt-rolen: di liblingen fun amerikaner un lodzer publikum Moli Pikon / Subretin-kenigin un ihr partner / Yankev Kalid [sic]

Cinema theater / Bajka / Franciszkańska 31 / Special suited music / The picture will be illustrated with a large choir / which will perform synagogal and other songs

Grandiose holiday program! Greatest Jewish film! Renewal of the great masterpiece in a new literary adaptation under the name of / “East and West” / Realized by the famous Jewish director [Sidney] M. Goldin, from Maurice Schwartz’s Yiddish Art Theatre in New York / In the leading roles: the darlings of American and Łódź audiences Molly Picon / Soubrette queen and her partner / Jacob Kalich