[1][2] He first appeared as a star in the character of Abijah Booze in The Yankee Consul, and sang It Was Not Like This in the Olden Time.

[3] In 1905 he appeared on Broadway with John Bunny in Easy Dawson, the two apparently playing firemen.

In 1907, Hitchcock was charged with the sexual abuse of two adolescent girls together with New York magnate William A.

[4] As Hitchcock's trial progressed, it was revealed that the charges of sexual abuse were fabricated as part of a blackmail scheme.

In one of her few movie roles, Zabelle appeared in the silent film The Red Widow (1916) opposite male lead John Barrymore.