Annie Lewis (c. 1869 – October 5, 1896) was an American soubrette of light operas and musical comedies who died from tuberculosis in her twenties.
[1][2][3] By sixteen Lewis was touring the country with her own company as the soubrette in Lincoln A. Fisher's Little Trump,[4][5] and the following year with Charles Verner in Shamus O’Brien, a romantic comedy from the poem by Frederick Maeder and Thomas B.
[6][7] 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;[8] Our Irish Visitor;[9] David Loyd's The Woman-Hater;[10] 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;[11][12][13] Frederick Hallen and Joseph Hart's vaudeville skit Later On;[14] and A Nutmeg March by William Hawthorn.
[15][16][17] 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.
Just two years earlier it had been reported in the press that Lewis had purchased in cash a $9,000 granite-and-brick house for her parents in the Chevy Chase, neighborhood of Washington D. C.[3][21]