HINES MATTHEWS, ALTONELL

HINES MATTHEWS, ALTONELL. Theater singer (1905 in Norfolk, Virginia; 6 August 1977 in New York, New York). She obtained her musical education at Livingston College in Salisbury, North Carolina (B. A.), and at Columbia University Teachers College in New York (M. Ed.). Her teaching career included tenures at Virginia State College in Petersburg and Howard University in Washington, D.C. By the 1930s she had settled in New York and was active in musical theater. She sang the role of Commère...