Picon, Molly

Belz (Jacob Jacobs and Alexander Olshanetsky); Ich Sing (Molly Picon and Abe Ellstein)

Standardized YIVO transliteration
Belz; Ikh zing

English translation
Belz; I sing

Performers
Seymour Rechtzeit, tenor
Dave Tarras, clarinet and saxophone

Instruments
tenor voice, trumpet, violin, clarinet, saxophone, piano and string bass

Label (record company)
Victor

Label catalog number
25-5033 / V-9069

Matrix number
BS 047952-1; BS 047951-1

Date of recording
1940 March 14

Place of recording
New York, NY

Genre
theater music

Die veldt is a theatre; Pinky's in a pickle (Molly Picon; Abe Ellstein)

Standardized YIVO transliteration
Di velt iz a teater

English translation
The world is a theater

Performers
Molly Picon, voice
Dave Tarras, clarinet
Abe Ellstein, conductor

Instruments
soprano; orchestra

Label (record company)
Banner

Label catalog number
B-2015

Matrix number
A-156; A-155

Date of recording
unknown

Place of recording
unknown

Genre
theater music

Ich Hab A Katarr In Mein Nooz; Yankele

Standardized YIVO transliteration
Ikh hob a katar in mayn noz; Yankele

English translation
I Have a Cold in My Nose; Yankele

Performers
Molly Picon, voice

Instruments
voice and orchestra

Label (record company)
Pathe

Label catalog number
03666

Matrix number
N 105059-5-4; N 105061-4-5

Date of recording
1923 December

Place of recording
New York, NY

Genre
theater music

Length
3:08; 3:04

Photographs, scripts, playbills, musical scores, correspondence, recordings, plaques, and art objects relating to Picon's theatrical career. Personal photographs of Picon and her husband Jacob Kalich. Photographs of Picon in various stage and film productions including the films Fiddler on the Roof, East and West, Mamele, Yidl mitn fidl, Milk and Honey, and the plays Kuni Leml, Motel Payse. Manuscripts of plays including Shmendrik and Yankele. Music by Abe Ellstein, Mordecai Gebirtig, Abraham Goldfaden, Molly Picon, Joseph Rumshinsky. Playbills and programs from films and theater. Scrapbook of correspondence, theater tickets. Recordings of songs performed by Picon. Plaques, citations, awards. Original art items including portraits, illustrations and cartoons on various topics, many of them studies of Picon.

Tzipke; A bisel liebe (Molly Picon; Joseph Rumshinsky)

Standardized YIVO transliteration
Tsipke; A bisl libe

English translation
Tsipke; A little bit of love

Performers
Molly Picon, voice
Mirian Kressyn, voice

Instruments
soprano; orchestra

Label (record company)
Columbia

Label catalog number
8030-F

Matrix number
89956-1; 89955-2

Date of recording
1924 May

Place of recording
New York, NY

Genre
theater music

Show title
Tzipke

Length
2:52; 2:54

This collection contains 331 Yiddish theater and film posters, mainly from the first half of the twentieth century, from North and South America.

Zlatapol (Jacob Jacobs and Alexander Olshanetsky); Mazel (Molly Picon; Abe Ellstein)

Standardized YIVO transliteration
Zlatapol; Mazl

Performers
Seymour Rechtzeit, voice

Instruments
tenor voice, trumpet, violin, sax, piano, string bass

Label (record company)
Victor

Label catalog number
V-9071 / 25-5035

Matrix number
BS 047953-1; BS 047954-1

Date of recording
1940 March 14

Place of recording
New York, NY

Genre
theater music

Localities: Buenos Aires, Dorchester (Mass.), Łódź, Lublin, New York, Paterson (N.J.), Piotrków Trybunalski, Rio de Janeiro, Warsaw

Five items pertain to Picon's appearances in plays, including "Di komedyantke," libretto by Lateiner, adapted by William Siegel; and "Oy iz dos a meydl." Other personalities highlighted include composer Joseph Rumshinsky, producer and director Jacob Kalich, and composer and conductor Abraham Ellstein. Two items pertain to Picon's appearance in a concert, performing various roles. The remaining items are fliers for the films Mazl tov (also under the titles Di alte un naye velt and Mizrekh un mayrev), Idl mitn fidl, and Mamele. 21 items.

Localities: Buenos Aires, Chicago, Łódź, New York, Warsaw

Programs (11) for the following plays: "A mames opfer" by I. Zolatarevsky, with music by Joseph Rumshinsky; "Vos meydlekh tuen," operetta by A. Olshanetzky and Jacob Kalish, with a libretto by William Siegel and lyrics by Jacob Jacobs; "Dos freylekhe yesoymele," operetta by Kalich and Rumshinsky, with libretto by Siegel and lyrics by Louis Gilrod and Picon; "Mayn malkele" by Siegel, with music by Abraham Ellstein and lyrics by Jacobs, co-starring Aaron Lebedeff; "Tsipke fayer" by L. Freiman and Kalich, with music by Rumshinsky. Also includes a brochure concerning the opening of Molly Picon's Folks Theatre at 12th Street and Second Avenue; and three clippings, two of which pertain to appearances of Picon in "Yankele," in Warsaw and Łódź, respectively. 15 items.

Three photos are by Rappoport Studio, New York. two of them showing Picon in the title role of "Shmendrick" by Abraham Goldfaden, which premiered in 1924, and the third in an unidentified role; the latter are stored in Oversize Box 96. 4 items.

This subseries comprises approximately 1,000 oversize posters stored in map drawers. In Jonas Turkow's arrangement and cataloging of the items in the collection, oversize posters were fully integrated with the playbills found in Subseries 3; the item numbers they received fall within the same sequence as those of the playbills. Both types of items were categorized under the Yiddish heading "afishn" (posters, playbills; related to the French: affiche). The arrangement of the posters, therefore, mirrors that of the playbills in Subseries 3, with correponding folder titles and numbers (the folders containing posters are distinguished with the addition of a suffix "P" to the folder number).