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American singer and actress (1878 - 1929)
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Ida Brooks Hunt
A white woman in profile. She is wearing a high-necked white blouse and a dark over dress with puffy sleeves. Her hair is back and caught in a visible hair ornament behind her head.Ida Brooks Hunt, from a 1905 publication.
BornIda Grace Brooks
August 7, 1878
Panama
DiedDecember 6, 1929
New York
Occupation(s)Singer, actress

Ida Grace Brooks Hunt (August 7, 1878 – December 6, 1929) was an American singer and actress.

Early life

Ida Grace Brooks was born in Panama, the daughter of an American banker father and a musical mother from Barcelona. She attended a convent school there, and St. Francis Xavier school in Brooklyn. In 1908 she spent some time studying music in Paris, in the company of fellow American singer Oriska Worden.

Career

Hunt was an actress with "an unusually high soprano" voice, who starred in the musicals Woodland (1904–1905) Algeria (1908), and The Chocolate Soldier (1909–1910). In 1906, she tossed the first pitch at a New York Giants baseball game. She had a musical act in vaudeville with Alfred de Manby. During and after World War I, she entertained American troops in Europe, under the auspices of the YMCA. She spent months in French hospital recovering from health issues incurred during that work. Her last New York stage appearance was in Robin Hood, just a few weeks before she died in 1929.

Personal life

In 1898, Ida Brooks married George Edwin Hunt, a dental surgeon. They lived in Indianapolis, and they divorced in 1906. He remarried in 1908. She died at her cousin's home in Brooklyn in 1929, after a stroke.

References

  1. "Ida Brooks Hunt". Boston Sunday Post. April 23, 1905. p. 5. Retrieved June 17, 2020 – via NewspaperArchive.com.
  2. Powers, Ethel (December 12, 1908). "Miss Worden's New Move". New York Star. p. 22. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  3. "Indianian Scores in New Opera". The Indianapolis Star. 1908-08-25. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. The Burr McIntosh Monthly. Burr McIntosh Publishing Company. March 1905.
  5. "Woodland". The Cast. 19: 199. March 13, 1905.
  6. ""ALGERIA" AT ATLANTIC CITY: Ida Brooks Hunt Prima Donna In the New Musical Comedy". The New York Times. August 25, 1908. p. 7 – via ProQuest.
  7. Bordman, Gerald; Bordman, Gerald Martin; Norton, Richard (2010). American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle. Oxford University Press. pp. 287, 297. ISBN 978-0-19-972970-8.
  8. "Scores in 'Chocolate Soldier'". The Indianapolis News. 1909-09-08. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Three of the Principal Characters in 'The Chocolate Soldier'". The Courier-News. 1910-04-30. p. 11. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Hernández, Lou (2018-10-22). Manager of Giants: The Tactics, Temper and True Record of John McGraw. McFarland. pp. 44–45. ISBN 978-1-4766-7070-6.
  11. "'My Hero' Helped a Heroine to Fame". Evening Public Ledger. 1917-07-21. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. Evans, James William; Harding, Gardner L. (Gardner Ludwig); McMein, Neysa; Parkhurst, Anita; Rundquist, Ethel (1921). Entertaining the American army : the American stage and lyceum in the world war. University of California Libraries. New York : Association Press. p. 190.
  13. "MRS. IDA BROOKS HUNT, OPERETTA SINGER, DIES: Former Prima Donna Last Appeared in 'Robin Hood'--Entertainer for Soldiers in World War". The New York Times. December 8, 1929. p. N9 – via ProQuest.
  14. ^ "Ida Brooks Hunt, Prima Donna, Dies". Times Union. 1929-12-07. p. 13. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. Indiana Dental Journal. 1898. p. 716.
  16. "Indianapolis Member of Savage Opera Company Visiting in City". The Indianapolis News. 1905-10-28. p. 26. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. "Dental College Faculty". The Indianapolis Journal. 1899-05-26. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. "Indianapolis Singers' Success in Boston". The Indianapolis News. 1904-04-28. p. 14. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. "Ida Brooks Hunt Testifies". The Indianapolis Star. 1906-06-03. p. 34. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. "Married at Louisville". The Indianapolis News. 1908-06-23. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-06-17 – via Newspapers.com.

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