MOTEN BARNETT, ETTA

MOTEN BARNETT, ETTA. Actress/Concert singer (5 November 1901 in San Antonio, Texas). Her father, a minister, was transferred to Kansas City, Kansas, when she was a child. She began singing in her father's church choir at an early age. She obtained her musical education in the public schools of Kansas City, Western University in Quindaro, and at the University of Kansas in Lawrence (B.A., 1931). After graduation from college she went to New York, intending to stay only...