Memories of Katinka
A few days after my dad signed the contract [https://www.jimheid.com/the-curtain-rises/] with the Hartman-Steindorff Opera Company in 1922, he performed in Katinka, a »
The Curtain Rises
San Francisco in the 1920s. The memories of the 1906 earthquake were as fresh as the memories of 9/11 are today. The city had rebuilt, »
My Mom, Her Brother, and the Rocking Chair
When my dad’s career as a performer began heating up in California, my mom was a toddler in the Western Pennsylvania coal-mining community [https://www. »
Portrait of a Young Actor
California agreed with my dad. Within five years of moving west with his mother, he went from being the kid from Brooklyn wearing knickers to being »
Discovering California
Shortly after the end of World War I, my dad and his mom moved from Brooklyn to Northern California. Several relatives lived in Berkeley and Oakland, »