Mabel Hite
| Mabel Hite | |
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Theatre Magazine, 1911
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May 30, 1883 Ashland, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
| Died | October 22, 1912 (aged 29) New York, New York, U.S.A. |
| Other names | Mabel Hite Hamlin Mabel Hite Donlin |
| Occupation | Stage actress, vaudeville performer |
| Spouse(s) | Edward Ellis Hamlin (divorce) Mike Donlin (her death) |
Mabel Hite (May 30, 1883 – October 22, 1912) was a vaudeville comedian and musical comedy actress.
Mabel Hite was born in Ashland, Kentucky on May 30, 1883, the daughter of Lewis and Elsie Hite. 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.
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 Hale Hoyt's A Milk White Flag. 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. 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.
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.
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