After their baby’s death, Kalich took Picon to Europe
to expose her to the European stage and enhance her reputation
in America. “The Yiddish I spoke was completely bastardized,
and part of our plan was for me to learn correct Yiddish with
its soft, guttural European accent.” She
performed across the continent—in Vienna, Kishnev, Lemberg,
Jassy, Bucharest, London and Paris—to rave reviews in original
acts she and Kalich had written. The relationship that she
formed with these audiences and her new understanding of
Yiddish culture laid the foundation for the rest of her career.
Those theatergoers and their American relatives, children and
grandchildren would return again and again to see Picon perform.
By the time she returned to the United States two years later, her
fame had already preceded her. |
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