New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-23
MABEL H|TE DIES A
VICTIM OF CANCER
Wife of mike" DOnIin, Base
ball Star, Sought Aid of
Christian Science.
TURNED TO DOCTOR AT END
Actress Was One of Best
Known of Broadway's Vaude-
vile Favorites-Husband
Coming Here.
CHARLES REICH.
Brother Of Jack" Sullivan.

II was only about thirty days ago
that Mabel Hite told "A reporter that
wonderful things had happened" 10
her since a dark day in the carly sum-
mer. when the doctors said she would
die in short time.
But It's all different now she said
at that time, as she sat In a roller
chair In her rooms at the Powe!ton.
Broadway and 97th street. I turned
to God, just as | suppose ami | hope
We all do. For almost two months |
haven't taken any medicine and |
haven't let a doctor come near me-"
She had embraced Christian Science
and was ardent over It. Even last
winter. when the Comcdienne was so
III. her mother, Mrs. Elsie Hite. tried
TO get her daughter TO give up sur
geons and physicians and study Mrs.
Eddy's books But Miss Hit2 kept on
working and believing In doctors until
she finished n performance at the Il
hambra. She became so I'll on June 10
that she was removed at once TO DR..
John r. Walkers sanatOrium, in Last
33d street. She underwent Il serious
operation, and in her convdlescence
Mike" Donlin, her baseball-hero hus-
band left the Pittsburgh CLUB TO be at
her bedside. Then peritonius devel-
oped and II was not thought that she
would recover.
After she came from he sanatorium
her mother and Mrs. Hildah Reeder
and f. Y. Stimson, New York manager
OF a Detroit automobile concern. all
bent their efforts TO turn the actress
to Christian Science.
And they succeeded.
Early in September Mrs. Oonlin be-
gan to get better and went out twice
a day in her rolling chair. She even
went up to the Polo Grounds to yell
for Mike" and 10 implore hi,h TO slam
1t out. And one day she had the Joy
Of seeing him do 1t as she set in her
electric automobile along the side
lines. Up and down Broadwa.' people
talked about her recovery and the
marvel OF II and were glad.
But Mabel Hte died yesterday after
noon at No. 526 West 11lth street.
Mike" about to step out on a stage
at Youngstown, Ohio, received tele-
gram-the first news he had that his
wife was dying.
Mrs. Donlin, who had been confined
TO her bed for three days. was CON-
scioug until few minutes before she
died. and able to recognize her mother
almost to the very end. II was her
strong will that kept her alive as long
as 4 did, according to DR.. James p.
Hunt. of No. SO West 46th street, the
physician I'm charge. DR. Hunt said the
operation last June, which was for
cancer Of the intestines, served to stave
off death for a while, but that the ma
lignant growth soon reappeared, and
the patient was too weakened to make
a rhysical fight for her life. II was
but n short life, anyway-only twenty
seven years. Anu VI '"''' '"'''s
seven years over sixteen we're spent in
making other people laugh, for Mabel
Hite went on the stage when she was
a little girl.
The actress was one Of the best
known OF all of Broadways faVorites.
In April, year ago, she appeared In
n musical comedy, which soon expired.
And then she went back to vaudeville,
appearing in May with company OF
clowns, one OF whom she Justify pro-
claimed she was. She was weak and
thin then. and people sitting In the
front rows could see the lines In her
pain drawn face, but her funny hands
and feet kept going, and the smile
lighted her face 1t was while she was
playlng this act that her illness on-
CURED, few months later.