Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-16
BRIDE OR GROOM.
Annie Hindlc, An Actress, Doesn't Ca
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Annie Hindlc, An Actress. Doesn't Caro-
Which.
New YoaK, July S-There Is a choice
piece OF gossip going the rounds of the
Vaudeville Rialto in the report that
Annie llindle, the male i-mpersonator.
had been married on June Is last, in
Troy, to a Miss Louise Spangehl
Between twenty and thirty years
ago Miss Annie Hindle was the sensa>
ton OF the day in New York city, oc-
cupying the place on the variety stage
now held by Maggie Cline. Harry Ker-
nell and Bessie Bonehill. Lately she
has been seen only in the cheaper var
iety theaters and the dime museums.
Miss Hindle has, In her half century
or so of life, been u bride, a wife, q
b idegroom, a husband and "A widower.
She has led two brides to the altar,
been led there o bride herself, and has
followed To the grave a man and q wo-
man, TO both OF whom she had been
united in the bonds of wedlosk.
Annie Hindle was 5 years of q
when her adopted mother Put her on
the stage in the pottery district Of
Hertfordshire, in England. She was
unsuccessful as a singer of tender
ballads, and then did two or three
turns" as was customary for the
artists OF those days. One called for
the representation of a man. So
natural was she In this that q man
ager who saw her made her take that
line of work as her speciality.
After all London had gone wild over
her cleyerness she came to America
and In 1857 she made her debut in
New York and achieved an immediate
triumph in her part Gotham saw q
plump woman, blonde, of medium
height, with n fine figure, small feet
and closely cropped hair parted on the
side. Her voice. deeper than alto. was
sweet, and her method Of singing was
pleasing. Besides all this she was the
drst ''malc impersonator" the patrons
Of the stage had seen. and she took
them nll by storm
In the fall Of 1868 Charles Vivian, IN
English comique and the founder Of
the order of Elks, met and fell in love
with the actress, The in%fatuation was
mutual. and they were married in
Philadelphia. A few months later, in
Denver. they separated. and never met
again. There was no divorce, and in
1850 Vivian died in Leadville, Colo.
Six years later Miss Iiindlc, or MIRA
Vivian. married Annie Ryan, who had
been her dresser" on the stage. Miss
Ryan was 25 years old and a pretty
brunette of small stature. The cere-
mony took place Mt Grand Rapids.
Mich, and Gilbert Saroney, "a female
i~mpersonator, acted as best man. For
i've years this strange couple lived
qnietly together or Jersey Civ
Heights Mrs. Vivian during all this
lime did not continue her business as
an actress. She and her wife spent
the timc together In going around to
the various resorts and were
apparently devoted to each other.
Last December the actress buried her
wife, following the funeral to the
grave and displaying great grief over
tho IN she claimed Il have loved
better than anyone else on Garth. To
drown her sorrow shc again beyan
active work on II stage. and for q
season was one OF the stars at q local
museum. During ono of her out-of-
town engagements she met Miss Lou
isa Spangehi In a boarding house.
Miss Spnngehl was not a a professional
actress. but Mrs. Vivian took her with
her on the road, and on Juno Ii the
Two were married In Troy by the Rev.
MIR. baldwin. The clergyman, Il n
said. believed that Miss Hindlc. on
Mrs. Vivian, was a man, ns she was NJ.
tired in mems clothing. In private
life, however, shc wears the orthodor
clothing Of her sex.