Hello all,  I did a little searching about Pauline Alpert and here's
what I found.  Much of it has been reported already but there are a few
new tidbits.  Most of this is from actual census sheets although a few
items are from other family histories that include Pauline.

Pauline Edith Alpert was born on 27 December 1906 in New York City
(Bronx).  Her parents, Samuel A Alpert and Anna/Annie Rosk, were
married in 1905.  I didn't find anything about Samuel's parents but
it appears that Anna's parents were Max Rosk and Pauline Rappaport.

Samuel A Alpert (an artist) was born about 1879 in Russia, he spoke
Yiddish, and he came to the USA in about 1886.  Anna Rosk was born about
1887 in New York.  She would have been about 13 years old at the turn
of the century, so I think we can forget about Pauline being born in
1900.  Samuel and Anna lived at #11 East 105th Street in New York City
according to the 1905 New York State census.

The 1910 census lists all three of them at #58 103rd Street, New York
City.  Pauline was 4 years old so that confirms that she was born in
1906.  In 1915, they had moved to Rochester, New York, and lived at #8
Helena Street, on the city's north side.  Samuel is still listed as an
artist.

On 5 September 1915, Pauline's sister, Ethel Jacqueline was born.
Shortly thereafter they moved next door to #12 Helena Street, and in
1916 Samuel was listed in the city directory as a tailor, as he was
yearly until October 1919, when he died.

In 1920, the widow Anna Alpert and her two children (Pauline and Ethel)
were still living at #12 Helena Street.  She was employed as a shirt
sales lady.  According to the Rochester directory, after Samuel died,
Anna and the girls moved to 59 Baden Street and then 56 Buchan Street.

In 1930, Pauline had moved to New York City.  She lived in what appears
to be a boarding house at 234 - 242 West 48th Street.  Many of the
other lodgers were theater people.

Anna Alpert remarried to Harry David Hyman (born in 1881), apparently
on 27 Oct 1924 in Utica, New York.  In 1930, they lived (with Ethel) at
85 Park Avenue in Rochester.  Harry originally lived about a mile from
Anna on Rochester's north side.

1940 finds Pauline and Ethel living together in the Dearborn Apartments
on 55th Street in New York City.  Strangely, Pauline is listed as a
secretary for a loan company and Ethel is a pianist for a radio
station.  I suspect that the census taker switched those lines.

Also in 1940, Harry Hyman, a streetcar conductor, is living in the
Edison Hotel on Elm Street in downtown Rochester, New York.  That's
now the Cadillac Hotel, which is an interesting place which apparently
rents some rooms by the hour.  There are no census records available
after 1940.

It appears that Pauline's sister, Ethel, married twice in her later
years.  She died on 9 Nov 1994 in West Palm Beach, Florida.  Pauline
never married.  The Social Security death index says that she died
on 6 April 1988 in Rockland, New York.  In case you need it, her SSN
was 121-07-8570.

I checked for newspaper articles about Pauline Alpert on
http://fultonhistory.com/  Little did I realize just how famous she
was.  There are literally thousands of articles about her in papers
all over New York State.  In several articles, she is mentioned as
a guest on various radio programs along with various big name stars.

An article in the Buffalo newspaper mentioned that she would be at
Shaw's Theater for the following week.  It also said that she was paid
$500 per record by RCA and was making 20 records per year.  All in all,
she was making over $30,000 per year.  That was in 1927 when she was
only 21 years old.  That's something like half a million dollars in
today's money!  And she did it by playing the piano.  Amazing!

Regards,
Craig Smith