Clara Gold
Clara Gold (, 1888–1946) was an American Yiddish theatre actor and recording artist. She recorded more than twenty Yiddish theatre music and comedy discs between 1917 and 1929, usually with comedic partner Gus Goldstein. Biography Gold was born in New York City in 1888. Her father was a house painter. Not long after she was born, the entire family moved back to Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (today Lviv, Ukraine). The family returned to the United States when she was thirteen. She got her start in acting as a chorus girl in the Windsor Theater. She then became a Vaudeville and variety artist at various venues and music halls in New York. When she entered the actor's union she became a character actor on the mainstream Yiddish stage in New York and Philadelphia, including at the Liberty Theatre with Julius Adler and later Anshel Schorr, at the Prospect Theater, and at the Lyric Theatre. According to Pesach Burstein, Gold was illiterate and memorized all of her lines by ear before any new performance. In 1916 she was invited to Victor Records to make test recordings for them as a solo singer; the disc was not released but she was soon invited back. Starting