Maurice Schwartz
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Maurice Schwartz (1889-1960) [1]. Actor and manager active in the United States. He specialised in translations of English dramatists, including Shakespeare, and the great Russian classicists.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
He lead the Yiddish Art Theatre Company [2] which ACT brought from New York to His Majesty's Theatre in 1954.
Sources
Tucker, 1997.
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