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Ida Adams and chorus in Houp La!
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Born |
Ida M. Adams c. 1888 United States |
Died | November 4, 1960 | (aged 71–72)
Occupation | Stage actress, singer, writer |
Ida Adams (c. 1888 – November 4, 1960), sometimes credited as Ida M. Adams, was an American-born actress and singer who worked chiefly in musical theatre.
Her career from 1909 to 1914 was in the United States, then in London's West End from 1915 to 1917. Adams also wrote the story on which the silent film Limousine Life (1918) starring Olive Thomas was based.
Adams's third appearance on stage was at the Knickerbocker Theatre on Broadway on April 27, 1909, playing Miss Glick in The Candy Shop. Later that year, she toured in Three Twins, as Summer Girl and Boo Hoo Tee Hee Girl. In 1911 she was Desirée in the musical The Pink Lady at the New Amsterdam Theatre, after which she went on tour with the show. She was next in Florenz Ziegfeld's A Winsome Widow (1912), at the Moulin Rouge, in New York, playing the role of Tony. From October 1912 she appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1912, which ran until January 1913.
After Ziegfeld Follies, Adams moved to London, playing at the London Hippodrome in 1915, appearing the next year in the revue Half-Past Eight at the Comedy Theatre, and then in Charles B. Cochran's Houp La! (1916) at the St Martin's Theatre. She recorded two songs from Houp La! for the His Master's Voice label at the Gramophone Company's studios at Hayes, Middlesex, on 11 January 1917: The first of these was "Oh! How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo," accompanied by a female choir and the St Martin's Theatre Orchestra, while the second was Paul Rubens's "Wonderful Girl, Wonderful Boy, Wonderful Time", sung as a trio with Gertie Millar and Nat Ayer.