Reuben Doctor

[1] Doctor's father was a kosher meat tax collector, and until the age of fourteen he had a traditional Jewish education in a Cheder.

[2] At some point in the 1890s, possibly 1896, he emigrated to England, where he began his involvement in the musical theater while supporting himself as a hairdresser.

[3] He met many of the actors in the London Yiddish Theater milieu and eventually made his debut as the character Marcus in Abraham Goldfaden's The Sorceress.

[4] Around 1908 or 1910, Doctor relocated to the United States, where some of his family members were already living, and began to see real success in the musical theater, and especially as a Yiddish language songwriter.

[7] Although he is less remembered for these, he apparently wrote plays as well, such as Der kales kind ("the Bride's Child") in 1912.