{{Short description|1878 play by Abraham Goldfaden}} {{One source|date=October 2025}} {{italic title}} '''''Todros, Blow''''' or '''''Todres the Trombonist''''' (original [[Yiddish]] title '''''Todros, Blos''''' or '''''Todres, Bloz''''') was an 1878 light comedic play by [[Abraham Goldfaden]], now lost. The story centers around a man living beyond his means who has ordered his servant, Todros, to blow a [[trombone]] whenever one of his creditors approaches.
Writing his memoirs some 40 years later, [[Jacob Pavlovich Adler|Jacob Adler]] recalled seeing it as a young man, only a few months into his own acting career. He describes it as "a foolish comedy [translated] from the German" and adds that at the time he first saw it in [[Odessa]], [[Ukraine]], he, well versed in [[Russian language|Russian]] theater, viewed it as an example the shortcomings of the then-nascent [[Yiddish theater]]: "Why if we must steal, I asked myself, must it always be something old and stale? [[Nikolai Gogol|Gogol]]'s ''[[The Government Inspector|Inspector General]]'' is also about a young man with debts."
==References== * [[Jacob Pavlovich Adler|Adler, Jacob]], ''A Life on the Stage: A Memoir'', translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, {{ISBN|0-679-41351-0}}. 118.
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