Beygun, who imported high-quality scenery from Spain. Here they acquired a new prompter, Avrom Zetzer—whom Adler describes as a "learned" man who had previously fulfilled the same function for Goldfaden in Romania— and virtuoso Zorach Vinyavich became leader of their orchestra. Vinyavich's 16-year-old daughter Bettye also joined the troupe to play juvenile roles. Returning to Odessa, they found Goldfaden "as difficult to approach as an emperor". When they finally managed to get an audience, Goldfaden agreed to allow Rosenberg's company to function as a provincial touring company, but with another of his brothers, Tulya, as head of the troupe. Goldfaden also poached Spivakovsky for his own Odessa company. With Tulya in charge there were, as Adler wrote, "no more communistic shares, no more idealistic comradeship". They played a month in Chişinău, where people slept in the courtyard to be the first to get tickets, and a 16-year-old David Kessler was almost accepted to join the company as an extra, but was prevented from doing so by his father. Later they toured to Yelizavetgrad (now Kirovohrad), where they were joined by Israel and Annetta Grodner, who had rejoined Goldfaden in Odessa before falling out with him. When his actors went on strike in Kremenchuk over low pay, Rosenberg himself played the juvenile lead role in Shmendrik, effectively breaking the strike. The dispute was resolved, and one of their next performances, in Poltava, became a benefit as a wedding gift to Adler and Oberlander. They toured on through Ukraine, until Goldfaden called them back to Odessa, which most of the troupe obeyed, leaving Rosenberg and the Adler-Oberlander contingent in Smila without a troupe. In Smila they overheard a woman singing who later become famous under the name Keni Liptzin, but was at this time known as Keni Sonyes, who became their new prima donna. They toured on to Spolya, which at the time belonged to Count Alexander A. Abaza, among the most philo-Semitic of Tsar Alexander II's advisors. The town lacked a theater, but at Abaza's behest a storehouse was turned into a performance space, furnished in part from the count's own dacha. The troupe continued on to Zlatapolya, Novomirgorod, and Bogoslav, around which time Alexander Oberlander left to marry and settle down, and was replaced as advance man by a former employer of Adler's named Cheikel Bain. Though they were able to maintain a reasonable lifestyle from their touring, the troupe