Ada Reeve
Origin/Culture/Country: EnglishAda Reeve: was an English actress of both stage and film.she made her first appearance on the stage at the age of four in the pantomime Red Riding Hood on Boxing Day 1878 at the Pavilion Theatre in London's Whitechapel. A series of pantomime and dramatic roles followed, many at the Pavilion, before she began working as a music hall performer as a teenager. "She Was a Clergyman’s Daughter" (sheet music shown at right) was a seemingly innocent, but actually risqué music hall song about a clergyman's daughter who was not as naive or charitable as she would have you imagine. Reeve performed the song in a demure costume of a flounced dress and bonnet, letting the audience in on the racy innuendos of the song through knowing winks and gestures.
Ada Jones
Origin/Culture/Country: AmericanAda Jones: was a popular singer who recorded from 1905 to the early 1920s. Born in Lancashire, England (United Kingdom), her family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1879. She started performing on stage, including juvenile roles in the 1880s
Ada Cambridge
Origin/Culture/Country: AustalianAda Cambridge: was an English writer.Overall she wrote more than twenty-five works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.[1] Many of her novels were serialised in Australian newspapers, and were never published in book form.While she was known to friends and family by her married name, Ada Cross, she was known to her newspaper readers as A.C.. Later in her career she reverted to her maiden name, Ada Cambridge, and it is thus by this name that she is known.[2]
Ada Verdun Howell
Origin/Culture/Country: AustalianAda Verdun Howell: was an Australian author and poet. Born in Beaufort, Victoria, on her father's sheep property, she was educated at Ruytons Girls' School. Her sister was the artist Valma Howell. She lived in New York in the latter part of her life where she wrote most of her most famous works. Her early writing, which she later eschewed as adolescent, showed considerable skill utilising Indigenous Australian phonetic forms of her childhood in Western Victoria. She is best known for her later writing, much praised for its great formal and feminine qualities, as an early sound poet.
Ada Perkins
Origin/Culture/Country: Puerto RicanAda Perkins: was a Puerto Rican beauty queen who represented her island in the Miss Universe beauty pageant in 1978. She is the only Miss Puerto Rico to die as a result of an automobile accident.Perkins was a model who participated in television commercials for various companies, among them: "Chicklets Adams", "Texaco", Salem cigarette" and for the "Milk Industries of Puerto Rico". In 1978, she represented Puerto Rico in the Miss Teen International beauty pageant held in Oranjestad, Aruba. Perkins came in 3rd place.[1]