Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-05
Welded TO A WOMAN.
Annie Hindle Gives the Idle Variety
Actors on the Rialto
SOMETHING NEW TO TALK ABOUT.
'he Becomes Bridegroom for the Second
Time in Her Life,
ONCE HAVING BEEN A FAIR BRIDE
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPATcH.l

actors on the Rialto had something to talk
about TODAY They had heard that Annie
Hindle, the celebrated male imperson-
ator," had married again, and that her
marriage was as strange in its main
feature as if it had been the
plot of weird novel of the latter-day
period. In fact, Miss Hindle had supplied
more than the usual basis for unique
story, because, for the second time in her
life, she had gone and married woman.
The affair has been kept quiet, but the de-
tails have leaked out, as theatrical stories
generally do On Sunday, June 26, in Troy,
Miss Annie Hindle became not the wife.
but the lawful husband of Miss Louise
Spangehl, who lives in Troy, and is not on
the stage. The ceremony was performed
In the utmost good faith by Rev. G. c.
Baldwin, Baptist minister of Troy, and
there is no reason to dispute his assertion
that at the time of the wedding he believed
Miss Hindle to be man.
The Star of a Troy Beer Garden.
She had been performing at q Troy beer
garden, and her nightly triumph was
achieved in her 'male impersonations. In
this act she wears mems clothing, smokes
cigars, and otherwise conducts herself in
the manner of the sterner sex.
No doubt the larger portion of her audi
ence was deceived by her cleverness, and
perhaps she assured the Troy clergyman
that she was really deceiving the public;
put ~ wpuia oe imPoss;oie ~ oIh'tnoe Sne
hlaito tnrongs 'na' Ahni' 'Ainuie 10 o'ner
than d woman.
Inc oaolty Oh ner recen. & narrlags Is m
sLeaseu =! n' aI .n". nnoa .as nIs
Inree 'imes nI pea ~ ahe Ie sne
was priue tMlce h sne nas peen q
sreon' onoI sue n"u ;.o nu'1Snu, 0
Twice sne nas hau "e ohce
sne was Wiuow, ohce sne was wluoNe!,
now sne mas nusoanu again. II tnere IL
auythlhg III tne nios' topsy-tufset cnroni-
cies 20 equal tnls III its iantasticaiity' WHO
can tell about ltf
only last december Annie Hlndle bur1ed
her hrst wife. On the Jersey City Heights,
one cold December day, there was held
funeral which In one respect presented as
strange spectacle as is often witnessed.
Description of the New Groom.
In describing Annie Hindle. lust as she
is ro-day-a woman between 45 and so wears
of age. who in her prime was doubtless an
excellent type of what is called the
'dashingly handsome girl; with a face
that is masculine in all its lines;
a kindly expression; firmly set mouth and
a resolute chin. At that time she was the
chief mourner at the funeral of her first
wife, Annie Ryan. She had married Annie
RYAN in the summer of 1885, and, as in the
Troy affair, the strange wedding was sane
toned by the blessing of minister of the
Gospel.
When Annie RYAN died, and her hus-
Annie Hindle, buried her, the
eral was the oldest thing that had ever
en- noted on the JERSEY City Heights.
liss Hindle was apparently bowed in grief,
and her declaration that she had lost her
best friend on earth was in good faith
accepted by the few friends assembled
around the dead woman's bier They will
be amazed to, hear that. within six months
Annie Rindie has found a new wife.
Miss H1ndle In measure deceived the
Troy minister who made her the wife of
Louis SpangeheL She told hlm that this
was her second marriage, and that her name
was Charles Edward Hlndle She did not
tell him that she had never before assumed
male prefix, nor did she reveal to HIM
that long ago In the GUS she was the vile
OF Charles Vivian.
Sweet Singer When a Child.
When Annie Hindle was 5 years old the
woman who adopted her, and who gave her
protege her own name, put her on the stage
in the pottery district of Hartfordshire, in
England. The little girl sang well, even so
early. There was a fearlessness in
her manner that tickled her rough audiences,
and they made a favorite of her from the
very first. AT the outset she sang tender
songs, with love as their theme, but as she
grew up and travelled to London she
Enlarged her ''repertory."
Zone day, half in jest, she put on a mans
: ostume and sang rollicking ditty about
line and women. A manager who listened
her saw new field open to her. In
veek Annie Hindle was "male imperson-
ator,' and all London was talking about the
wonderful and minute accuracy of her mim-
icry
About 1867 she came to New York, to
triumph here as she had triumphed in Lon
don. She was a blonde, about feet
inches, with plump form, well-shaped
hands, small feet and closely cropped hair,
which on and off the stage
she parted on one side, brushing it away
from the temples just as men do. Her
voice was deeper than an alto, yet it was
sweet and 1t sang true with great express
sion.
Inc fIrSt OF ma'e impersona tors.
ANNE Hlndle was the hrst out-and-out
'male impersonator" New Iork's stage had
to dance obscurely in the ballet
with her sister; Blanche
Selwyn, was unheard OF; Maggie
Weston was yet to come along In the
crowded ranks OF Hlndle,s lmitators. But
in 81 all the glory was Hindle's, all the
novelty was hers, and che got all the
money, too
1t is tact that this dashing singer was
the recipient OF as many mash" notes as
probably ever went to a stage In this
country. Once she compared notes with II.
hot ooro1acu1r