![]() Already a veteran performer, Adler said that the Laboratory Theater, with its roots in the Moscow Art Theater, “opened her up” and gave her a new life. Back in New York, she enrolled at the newly established American Laboratory Theater school, where she studied with Richard Boleslavsky and Maria Ouspenskaya, who were then introducing their students to the revolutionary acting technique of Konstantin Stanislavsky. There followed a period of time on the road, including tours of Europe and Latin America. In the 1920s, Adler achieved star status on the Yiddish stage, appearing in over a hundred roles in such plays as Jew Süss, God of Vengeance, and Liliom, as well as in classics by Shakespeare and Tolstoy, with the foremost actors of the Yiddish theater, including David Kessler, Siegmund Mogulesko, Bertha Kalich, Keni Liptzin, and Jacob Ben-Ami. She played Naomi in Elisha ben Avuya at the Pavilion Theatre in London in 1919, and on her return to the United States had a commercial hit as Butterfly in The World We Live In. Her education in New York City public schools always took second place to rehearsals and performances. At age four, she took the part of one of the young princes in Shakespeare’s Richard III, and at age nine she played the young Spinoza. The fourth among five siblings (Frances, Jay, Julia, and Luther) and younger than her known half-siblings (Charles, Abe, and Celia Adler), Adler was enlisted in her father’s troupe as a toddler. and Sara Adler, the foremost actors of the Yiddish stage at the turn of the century. Stella Adler was born February 10, 1902, in New York City, the youngest daughter of Jacob P. ![]()
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