Child Star

That's me performing with another vaudeville star.

I became a child star of vaudeville. That's a kind of entertainment in which actors sing and tell stories. I was very popular because I was a kid. I traveled from place to place to entertain.

In a few years I had made enough money to bring my mother, brothers, and sisters to America. But I faced a new problem. It was 1924, and not as many immigrants were being allowed into America. My family could not get permission to come. They were in Poland, and my father and I were in America. How would we be a family again?