Kathleen Warner, née Kathleen Davis ( â€" December ), was a
Trinidadian actress and radio personality, also known as "Aunty Kay".
She is best remembered as the long-time host of the popular children's
programme The Aunty Kay Show, which aired from to on Radio Trinidad
every Sunday afternoon. A multi-talented woman, she was during the
course of her life a medical student, pianist, singer, actress,
dancer, broadcaster and teacher, giving lessons in music and
elocution, as well as briefly serving as an alderman of the Port of
Spain City Council. A biography of her was being written by Tony
Martin.Kathleen Davis was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, where she
went to Trinity Girls School and Bishop Anstey High School, and then
in , together with her two older sisters, Meta and Beryl, completed
her education in Britain, attending Redland High School, near Bristol,
as a boarder. She went on to study for two years at the School of
Medicine for Women, part of London University, but had to discontinue
medical studies after the death of her father, and later studied
speech and elocution in London.Becoming an actress, she featured
alongside Paul Robeson in the London stage production of the play
Stevedore, by Paul Peters and George Sklar, which opened at the
Embassy Theatre on May , with a cast that included Black actors of
American, West Indian, African, and English background. A notice by
Nancy Cunard in The Crisis said: "Kathleen Davis as 'Ruby' and the
Gold Coastian Ahuma as 'Joe Crump' are both beautiful and have great
personality."Kathleen Davis was also in the cast of the play about
Toussaint Louverture by C. L. R. James (her friend from Trinidad) that
was staged in London's West End starring Robeson. In addition she
acted in several films, including in a leading role in Debt of Honour
(), starring Leslie Banks.
Trinidadian actress and radio personality, also known as "Aunty Kay".
She is best remembered as the long-time host of the popular children's
programme The Aunty Kay Show, which aired from to on Radio Trinidad
every Sunday afternoon. A multi-talented woman, she was during the
course of her life a medical student, pianist, singer, actress,
dancer, broadcaster and teacher, giving lessons in music and
elocution, as well as briefly serving as an alderman of the Port of
Spain City Council. A biography of her was being written by Tony
Martin.Kathleen Davis was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, where she
went to Trinity Girls School and Bishop Anstey High School, and then
in , together with her two older sisters, Meta and Beryl, completed
her education in Britain, attending Redland High School, near Bristol,
as a boarder. She went on to study for two years at the School of
Medicine for Women, part of London University, but had to discontinue
medical studies after the death of her father, and later studied
speech and elocution in London.Becoming an actress, she featured
alongside Paul Robeson in the London stage production of the play
Stevedore, by Paul Peters and George Sklar, which opened at the
Embassy Theatre on May , with a cast that included Black actors of
American, West Indian, African, and English background. A notice by
Nancy Cunard in The Crisis said: "Kathleen Davis as 'Ruby' and the
Gold Coastian Ahuma as 'Joe Crump' are both beautiful and have great
personality."Kathleen Davis was also in the cast of the play about
Toussaint Louverture by C. L. R. James (her friend from Trinidad) that
was staged in London's West End starring Robeson. In addition she
acted in several films, including in a leading role in Debt of Honour
(), starring Leslie Banks.
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