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Annie Lewis (c. 1869 – 1896) was a promising American soubrette of light operas and musical comedies whose life was cut short while still in her twenties, a victim of tuberculosis. ==Biography== Annie B. Lewis was born and raised in Washington D. C. where her father, Charles Lewis, clerked for the U. S. Treasury Department. Early on Lewis demonstrated a talent for mimicry and by age four she was performing on stage under the eye of her mother, Amelia Lewis, a former parlor entertainer. At that age her song and dance routine oftentimes would be performed atop a piano to enable her to be seen by the audience.〔1870 US Census Records, Charles and Amelia Lewis, Ancestry.com〕〔(Munsey’s Magazine; vol. 11; 1894; pg. 298 ) accessed June 27, 2012〕〔(Little Annie Lewis Dead – The Evening Times (Washington D. C.); October 5, 1896; pg. 1 ) accessed June 27, 2012〕 By sixteen Lewis was touring the country with her own company as the soubrette in Lincoln A. Fisher’s ''Little Trump'',〔Little Trump Advertisement - Fort Wayne Daily Gazette; October 17, 1885; pg. 5〕〔( Fisher, A. Lincoln-Little Trump; or, Rocky Mountain Diamond: A Drama In Three Acts ) accessed June 27, 2012〕 and the following year with Charles Verner in ''Shamus O’Brien'', a romantic comedy from the poem by Frederick Maeder and Thomas B. Macdonough.〔(Brown, Thomas Alston - A History of the New York Stage; 1903; pg. 260 ) accessed June 27, 2012〕〔Shamus Obrien Advertisement-The Lowell Sun; October 10, 1886; pg. 4〕 Lewis would go on to play leading roles in productions of ''Favette'', a comedietta in one act, adapted for the stage by John Treshar from the story by Ouida,〔Adams, William Davenport - A Dictionary of the Drama, 1904; pg. 504〕 ''Our Irish Visitor'',〔Author unknown, performed by the vaudeville team, Murray and Murphy in the mid-1880s, Brown, Thomas Allston', A History of the New York Stage; 1903; pg. 226〕 David Loyd's ''The Woman-Hater,''〔(Lloyd, David Demarest – The Woman-Hater ) accessed June 28, 2012〕 Gus Heege productions of ''A Lumber Camp in Winter'' and ''Yon Yonson,'' the comic opera, ''Prince Pro Tem'' by Robert A. Barnet and Lewis S. Thompson, first performed at the Boston Museum on September 17, 1894,〔(Barnett, Robert A., Thompson, Lewis S. Prince Pro Tem ) accessed June 28, 2012〕〔No title-The Sandusky Register 9 May 1894; pg. 6 col. 5; Ancestry.com〕〔(''A Lumber Camp in Winter'', ''Yon Yonson'', The Wichita Daily Eagle; December 12, 1891; pg. 8 ) accessed June 28, 2012〕 Frederick Hallen and Joseph Hart's vaudeville skit ''Later On.''〔(Advertisement - The New York Herald, October 31, 1889; pg. 14, col. 1 ) accessed June 28, 2012〕 and ''A Nutmeg March'' by William Hawthorn,〔(The New York Clipper Annual; 1893; pg. 155 ) accessed June 28, 2012〕〔(Glass, Volume 1; 1894; pg. 57 ) accessed June 29, 2012〕 〔( Burroughs, Marie - The Marie Burroughs Art Portfolio of Stage Celebrities: 1904 ) accessed June 28, 2012〕 In May, 1895 she supported Camille d'Arville at the Broadway Theatre in, ''A Daughter of the Revolution'', a historical comic opera by J. Cheever Goodwin and Ludwig Engländer.〔(Miss D’Arville’s New Opera- New York Times; May 28, 1895; pg. 5 ) accessed June 28, 2012〕 A short time later ill health would force her to withdraw from performing.〔 Lewis married William Lackey on December 22, 1886 in Essex, Ontario, Canada. Lackey was known on the stage as Wilton Lackaye and would go on to have a long career in theater and film. At the time she was 17 and he 25.〔Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928 about William Lackey - Name: William Lackey - Birth Place: Washington DC US - Age: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Annie Lewis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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