About This Item

  • Call NumberTEMP_0029
  • TitleLife comes to 8th Avenue
  • SummaryFour women and three men posing for camera, making comic whispering or gossiping gestures. Caption: "'Life Comes to 8th Avenue' is the name of an original musical comedy to be presented Saturday at Temple Beth Elohim, Garfield Place and 8th Ave., by its junior members. Rehearsing, left to right, front row, are Edna Newmark, Gloria Kupersmith, Joan Jacobs and Dorothy Feinberg, and, back row, Stanley Sacks, Fred Hafer, and Leonard Cohen. Arnold Spector will direct the show, proceeds to go for maintenance of the temple's recreational activities."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Mar. 14, 1950. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCongregation Beth Elohim (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) ; Theater rehearsals
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Synagogues & temples: Beth Elohim, Congregation (est. 1861)