Ida Hawley

Ida Hawley
Born	April 26, 1876 Belleville, Ontario, Canada
Died	December 9, 1908 (aged 32) New York City
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1897-1908

Ida Hawley (April 26, 1876 – December 9, 1908) was a Canadian musical comedy actress and soprano singer.

Ida Hawley was born at Belleville, Ontario in 1876 and later raised in Toronto, where she received her higher education at the Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School

Little is known about her life, other than that when she was not working in the U.S. she maintained a residence at the Hotel Flanders in Toronto and that she left behind a legacy of work from a career that extended barely past a decade.

Her professional career began in 1897 as a stock actress with Augustine Daly's company, performing Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Philadelphia and later Boston. After a season of repertoire work Hawley left Daly to play Yvonne in Alexandre Dumas' Paul Jones at the Schiller Theatre in Chicago, followed by a part in A Runaway Girl at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia.

The next season she worked on the musical comedy Three Little Lambs (by R.A. Barnett and composer E.W. Corliss) which premiered at New York's Fifth Avenue Theatre on Christmas Day, 1899. The following year she appeared in the musical extravaganza A Million Dollars by Louis Harrison and George Hobart, that opened to unfavourable reviews on September 27, 1900.

Hawley had better luck as Ruth in the successful run of The Burgomaster, a musical comedy written by Gustav Luders and composed by Frank Pixley. The critics praised her performance as Princess Soo-Soo in A Chinese Honeymoon by George Dance (dramatist) and composer Howard Talbot. A few months later she assumed the role of Edith in another Luders and Pixley musical comedy, The Prince of Pilsen, during its long run at the Broadway Theatre.

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