Vera Brady Shipman Explained

Vera Brady Shipman
Birth Name:Vera Corinne Brady
Birth Date:May 26, 1889
Birth Place:Salina, Kansas
Death Date:February 11, 1932
Death Place:Chicago, Illinois
Nationality:American
Occupation:journalist, composer, clubwoman
Known For:arts journalism, concert promoter

Vera Brady Shipman (May 26, 1889 – February 11, 1932) was an American composer, journalist, talent manager, and concert promoter, based in Kansas and Chicago.

Early life

Vera Corinne Brady was born in Salina, Kansas,[1] the daughter of John Leeford Brady and Julia Mary Simons Hoinville. Her father was a newspaper editor in Kansas,[2] and later in Oregon and Idaho.[3] He also served in both houses of the Kansas Legislature, between 1904 and 1913. Her uncle was James H. Brady, Governor of Idaho.[4] Her mother lived in Chicago.[5] Vera Brady attended Hyde Park Academy High School in Chicago,[6] and the Cosmopolitan School of Music.[7]

Career

Shipman taught music and played in churches as a young woman.[8] She played piano accompaniment for various vocalists and instrumentalists, including singer Permelia Gale and cellist Vera Poppe.[9] She wrote music, including a setting of "Po' Li'l Lamb" by Paul Laurence Dunbar,[10] a song sung by her client Rosa Olitzka in concerts.[11] [12] She composed the music for Twenty Little Songs for Children (1914), with lyrics by Francesca de Capdevila (who later married cellist Pablo Casals).[13]

Shipman was an arts journalist.[14] She wrote for Radio Digest,[15] Social Progress,[16] [17] Musical America,[18] and was music and literary editor of The Salina Daily Union.[19] She also wrote film reviews,[20] and was a correspondent from the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1920.[21] She was heard on radio in the 1920s, including a report from Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans in 1923.[22] She was a vice president of the Chicago chapter of American Pen Women of Illinois.[23] She was a publicist for a Chicago department store,[24] [25] and she booked tours and managed musical performers.[26] [27]

Personal life

Brady married Melville Percy Shipman, a newspaper colleague of her father's, in 1913.[28] They had two daughters, Mary Juliet Shipman (1915-1986)[29] and Sarah Ann Shipman (1921-1926).[30] Vera Brady Shipman moved from Kansas to Chicago in 1922.[31] She died in 1932, aged 42 years, in a Chicago hotel room, possibly by suicide,[32] [33] though her family announced that she died from a heart attack. Her grave is in Lawrence, Kansas.[34]

Notes and References

  1. News: Personal. February 26, 1918. The Salina Evening Journal. August 9, 2019. 2. Newspapers.com.
  2. News: Brady Baby. February 25, 1918. The Salina Daily Union. August 9, 2019. 5. Newspapers.com.
  3. December 1924. Untitled news item. The Oregon Exchange. 8. 27.
  4. Book: Murdock, William Gray. Brady Family Reunion and Fragments of Brady History and Biography. John Leeford Brady.. s.n.. 1909. 111. en.
  5. October 1924. Chicago. The Santa Fe Magazine. 18. 82.
  6. News: Miss Vera Brady's Marriage. September 11, 1913. Lawrence Daily Journal-World. August 9, 2019. 5. Newspapers.com.
  7. News: Miss Brady's Recital. June 15, 1911. Lawrence Daily Journal-World. August 9, 2019. 5. Newspapers.com.
  8. News: Miss Brady a Teacher. August 28, 1911. Lawrence Daily Journal-World. August 9, 2019. 3. Newspapers.com.
  9. January 10, 1919. Bloomington, Il.. Music News. 11. 29.
  10. Book: Catalog of Copyright Entries. 1915. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1326. en.
  11. March 28, 1919. Salina. Music News. 11. 14.
  12. News: May Be Heard Here. October 16, 1915. Lawrence Daily Journal-World. August 9, 2019. 5. Newspapers.com.
  13. News: Songs for Little Folks. October 17, 1914. Lawrence Daily Journal-World. August 9, 2019. 8. Newspapers.com.
  14. News: Untitled news item. October 8, 1924. Statesman Journal. August 9, 2019. 8. Newspapers.com.
  15. Book: Halper, Donna. Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting. 2015-02-11. Routledge. 9781317520177. en.
  16. Shipman. Vera Brady. November 1923. America's Great Tenor. Social Progress. 7. 359–360.
  17. Shipman. Vera Brady. December 1923. An Ideal Social Leader. Social Progress. 7. 379–380.
  18. October 19, 1918. Salinas to Have Two Concert Series During Coming Winter. Musical America. 28. 206.
  19. News: Covers Story by Plane. May 6, 1920. Lawrence Daily Journal-World. August 9, 2019. 1. Newspapers.com.
  20. News: Photoplay Review. Shipman. Vera Brady. February 5, 1920. The Salina Daily Union. August 9, 2019. 2. Newspapers.com.
  21. News: Mrs. Vera Brady Shipman. June 3, 1920. The Salina Daily Union. August 9, 2019. 1. Newspapers.com.
  22. News: Radio 'Listeners In' at 11:35 Heard Vera Brady Shipman. February 16, 1923. The Salinas Daily Union. August 9, 2019. 8. Newspapers.com.
  23. News: Chicago Branch of the American Pen Women of Illinois. June 1, 1930. Chicago Tribune. August 9, 2019. 84. Newspapers.com.
  24. News: Dies Unexpectedly. February 12, 1932. Lawrence Journal World. August 9, 2019. 2. NewspaperArchive.com.
  25. News: Obituaries: Vera Brady Shipman. February 19, 1932. Women's Wear Daily. 21. ProQuest.
  26. March 7, 1919. Vera Brady Shipman. Music News. 11. 12.
  27. September 19, 1918. Shipman Concert Series. The Musical Leader. 36. 274.
  28. News: About Vera Brady Shipman. August 17, 1915. Lawrence Daily Journal-World. August 9, 2019. 4. Newspapers.com.
  29. News: Untitled society item. November 9, 1924. Statesman Journal. August 9, 2019. 16. Newspapers.com.
  30. News: Granddaughter of Former Statesman Editor Dies in Pocatello, Idaho. December 30, 1926. Statesman Journal. August 9, 2019. 7. Newspapers.com.
  31. February 24, 1922. Shipman. Music News. 14. 9.
  32. News: Chicago Club Editor is Discovered Dead in Room. February 12, 1932. Wausau Daily Herald. August 9, 2019. 1. Newspapers.com.
  33. News: Woman Editor Found Dead; Mrs. Vera Shipman of Chicago Paper is Believed a Suicide. February 12, 1932. The New York Times. 12. ProQuest.
  34. News: Gone to Kansas. February 17, 1932. St. Cloud Times. August 9, 2019. 6. Newspapers.com.

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