In addition to taking art lessons and dancing lessons (at the same Chamber's Academy Ballroom where Fred Astaire and his sister Adele were training), she took piano lessons from Miss Effie Ellis and her 'Method'.
She went to Omaha Public Schools, Brownell Hall, Chicago Girls Latin School, Art institute of Chicago (Juvenile Dept.), Mary C. Wheeler School in Providence R.I., Chicago Art Institute, and the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts were she graduated the year 1923.