McDANIEL, HATTIE. Vaudeville entertainer ( in Wichita, Kansas; in Los Angeles, California). She came from a musical family: her father had his own touring tent show, the McDaniel Company, and her mother was a gospel singer. Her family moved to Denver, Colorado, when she was a child, and she obtained her musical education in the public schools there. At the age of seventeen she attracted attention when she sang with George Morrison's orchestra on a...