Mabel Hite

Mabel Hite 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 mid1890s, where her father found employment at the Owl Drug Store. Lewis Hite, a native of Michigan, later became the first vicepresident 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 Sullivans comic opera, Iolanthe.

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