Research Catalog
Bertha Kalich papers
- Title
- Bertha Kalich papers, 1866-1955.
- Author
- Kalich, Bertha, 1874-1939.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Scrapbook of clippings (1918-1922) | Mixed material | Use in library | *ZC-342 Scrapbook of clippings (1918-1922) | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 23 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 23 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 22 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 22 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 21 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 21 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 20 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 20 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 19 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 19 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 18 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 18 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 17 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 17 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 16 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 16 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 15 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 15 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 14 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 14 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 13 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 13 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 12 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 12 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 11 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 11 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 10 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 10 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 9 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 9 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 8 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 8 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 7 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 7 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 6 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 6 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 5 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1991-005 Box 5 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 8 linear feet (23 boxes)
- Summary
- The papers consist of correspondence, programs, financial records, clippings, scripts, sides, scores, publicity pieces, photographs, and scrapbooks connected with Bertha Kalich. The majority of the materials are in English, though a great many clippings and some scripts are in Yiddish, and some early official documents are in German and Hebrew.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Clippings.
- Contracts.
- Correspondence.
- Printed ephemera.
- Financial records.
- Photographs.
- Promotional materials.
- Scrapbooks.
- Scripts.
- Scores.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Language (note)
- This collection contains materials in English, though a great many clippings and some scripts are in Yiddish, and some early official documents are in German and Hebrew.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 1991-005
- OCLC
- 232546303
- Author
- Kalich, Bertha, 1874-1939.
- Title
- Bertha Kalich papers, 1866-1955.
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography
- Bertha Rachel Kalich, daughter of Solomon Kalich and Babette Haber, was born on September 8, 1874 in Lemberg, Galicia (Poland), where she trained in declamation and voice culture from an early age despite the disapproval of her conservative Jewish family. While a student at Lemberg's Conservatory of Music, she met Leopold Spachner, a fellow student, whom she married in 1892. Starting as a chorus singer in Lemberg, Kalich soon achieved wide acclaim on the Polish and Romanian stages, despite deep anti-Semitic sentiment that made such success an unlikely prospect. In 1895, Kalich and Spachner immigrated to the United States where Kalich enjoyed great success in the Yiddish theatre until 1905. In that year, Harrison Grey Fiske persuaded Kalich to attempt a transition to the American stage. After only a few months she mastered English pronunciation sufficiently to manage the transition and became an immediate success. She appeared in plays by Sudermann, Maeterlinck, Tolstoy, and Shaw with occasional returns to the Yiddish stage, and was successful, as well, in the cinema. Her most famous, and often repeated, roles were as Magda in Sudermann's play of that name and Lilla Olrick in Jacobi's Riddle Woman. Kalich toured tirelessly in both the United States and Canada, her "emotional" brand of acting winning her great acclaim. In 1928, Kalich took ill during a run of The Soul of a Woman. From that time on, she was unable to work more than sporadically. Threatened with blindness, she underwent a series of operations. Between 1931 and 1936, friends in the theatrical world arranged a number of benefit performances to aid her in an unsuccessful battle to regain her health that decimated her fortune and embittered her. Correspondence among members of the family from 1928 on indicates that Kalich became despondent and felt abandoned by her husband and daughter, although the accuracy of her perception is not borne out by the documentation in the collection. On the other hand, there is evidence in these letters that she alienated many long-time associates outside the family. Kalich died on April 19, 1939, in New York City.
- Language
- This collection contains materials in English, though a great many clippings and some scripts are in Yiddish, and some early official documents are in German and Hebrew.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- See also one oversize scrapbook of clippings (1918-1922), available on microfilm, call number *ZC-342.
- Indexes
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Actresses.
- Added Author
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.Fields, W. C. (William Claude), 1880-1946.Fiske, Harrison Grey, 1861-1942.Tucker, Sophie, 1884-1966.
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 1991-005*ZC-342