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Mabel Hite (May 30, 1883 - October 22, 1912) was a vaudeville comedienne and musical comedy actress. ==Life and career== Mabel Hite was born in Ashland, Kentucky on May 30, 1883, the daughter of Lewis and Elsie Hite.〔Mabel Hite Dies After Brave Fight - The Newark Daily Advocate (Newark, Ohio); Wednesday; October 23, 1912; pg. 10b/c〕 Her family relocated to Pocatello, Idaho in the late 1880s and then Kansas City, Missouri in the mid-1890s, where her father found employment at the Owl Drug Store. Lewis Hite, a native of Michigan, later became the first vice-president of the newly formed Kansas City local of the National Association of Drug Clerks. Elsie Hite, originally from Illinois, would accompany her daughter throughout her early career which began at about age eleven in amateur theater as 'The Lord Chancellor' in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, ''Iolanthe''.〔Married in a Hurry - Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah); Sunday, March 03, 1901; pg. 5; col. 3〕〔(NARD journal, Volume 25, Issue 9 By National Association of Retail Druggists (U.S.), 1917; pg. 369 ) accessed September 3, 2012〕 〔(Browne, Walter, De Roy, E. Koch - Who's Who on the Stage, 1908; pg. 238 ) accessed September 3, 2012〕 By the late 1890s Hite was a performer with the Fairmont Stock Company of Kansas City and in 1898 toured as 'Adele Ray' in James M. Martin's ragtime farce-comedy, ''The Late Mr. Early''. The following year she appeared with the Dunne and Ryley Company as the orphan 'Pony Luce' in Charles Hoyt's, ''A Milk White Flag''.〔Advertisement - Le Mars Semi Weekly Sentinel (Le Mars, Iowa); Thursday, November 03, 1898; pg.4; col. 1〕〔Amusement Notes - Janesville Daily Gazette (Janesville, Wisconsin); Tuesday, December 05, 1899; pg. 2; col. 4〕 In the late summer of 1900 Hite was a soloist with Boston's ''The Howard's Own Show Company'' before embarking on a two season tour as 'Estelle Coocoo' in the Morton-Kerker musical comedy, ''The Telephone Girl''.〔Advertisement - Boston Daily Globe | Boston, Massachusetts | Sunday, August 19, 1900; pg. 19; col. 8〕 〔(Brown, Thomas Alston; A History of the New York Stage (''The Telephone Girl''); 1908; pg. 583 ) accessed September 7, 2012〕 In 1902 she played the 'waif' in road productions of the Charles Dazey melodrama ''The Burglar and the Waif'' and the following year toured in the musical ''The Chaperons'', as Phrosia.〔〔Plenty of Fun Ahead -Benton Harbor Daily Palladium (Benton Harbor, Michigan) Thursday, July 24, 1902; pg. 3〕〔(''The Chaperons'' – Internet Broadway Database ) accessed September 7, 2012〕 Hite made her Broadway debut at the Knickerbocker Theatre on May 2, 1904 as 'Nerissa', in the musical comedy, ''A Venetian Romance'' and the following year at Chicago's Garrick Theatre she played 'Captain Prissy Ping' in L. Frank Baum's ''The Woggle-Bug''. Later in 1905 she toured with the Frank L. Perley Opera Company opposite Viola Gillette in ''The Girl and the Bandit''. .〔〔(''A Venetian Romance''– Internet Broadway Database ) accessed September 7, 2012〕〔(Vintage Broadway - ''The Woggle-Bug'' ) accessed September 8, 2012〕〔''The Girl and the Bandit'' - book and lyrics, Mrs. A. C. Tyler, score, Frederick Colt-Wight - Amusements - Daily Telegram (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) November 21, 1905; pg. 6 Ancestry.com〕〔Advertisement - The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette; December 6, 1905; pg. 6; Ancestry.com〕 For the following season Hite joined forces with vaudevillian Walter Jones to form an act that met with success at vaudeville venues in and around New York City. On March 30, 1907, Hite starred as 'Tillie Day' in B. C. Whitney's production of ''A Knight for a Day'' at Chicago's Whitney Opera House and the next spring she came back to Broadway to play 'Martha Scraggs' at the Circle Theatre (Broadway at 60th St.) in, ''The Merry-Go-Round''.〔(''The Merry-Go -Round'' – Internet Broadway Database ) accessed September 7, 2012〕 Hite returned to vaudeville with her husband, professional baseball player Mike Donlin, in a series of comedic baseball skits. She last appeared in vaudeville in the spring of 1912 in a skit entitled ''Mabel Hite and Her Clowns''. Her last Broadway appearance came the year before at Wallack's Theatre playing 'Norah' in the musical farce, ''A Certain Party''.〔〔(''A Certain Party'' - Internet Broadway Database ) accessed September 7, 2012〕 Hite died after a long struggle with intestinal cancer on October 22, 1912 at her mother's residence in New York City. She was survived by Donlin, her husband for six years. Hite had married once before, to Edward Ellis Hamlin, the son of a wealthy Marshall Field's executive, after a whirlwind courtship in 1901. Their union ended in 1905 after two years of divorce proceedings.〔Mabel Hite is Dead - New York Times; October 23, 1912; pg. 13〕〔Gossip of the Stage - Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Saturday, September 26, 1903; pg.10〕〔Mabel Hite Divorced - Decatur Daily Review (Decatur, Illinois); Thursday, April 06, 1905; pg. 6〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mabel Hite」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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