During her world tour, her singing voice and personality were broadcast from radio stations in Amsterdam, Berlin, Cape Town, and London.

From the time when she was a child in grade school, she liked to sing the popular songs which her uncle, Winfield Hughes, had in his music store in Iowa City.

"[6]Bell won distinction in Iowa City singing the part of "Hebe" in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S.

Pinafore, a part which her mother, then Miss Alice Hughes, had sung 20 years before opposite the same basso, Frank Sueppel.

Though she was a pupil of Marie de Santo Riedel at the University of Iowa's School of Music[1] at the time, her practice did not take up all her energy.

Bell organized a quartet including Grace Pfannebecker, Nita Stamp, Esther Thomann, and herself, touring Iowa on chautauquas and winter concerts.

After filling some picture engagements in the west, she returned to vaudeville in a sketch written for her by Jack Lait.

After it closed for the summer, Bell toured the Canadian Rockies and returned to St. Paul where she appeared in a musical interlude, The Butterfly Girl.

[5] Bell served on the board of director of Brandeis University, and was Vice-president of the New York Gourmet Society.

[11] In her later years, Rita Bell remained on Long Island and made her home in Great Neck, where she died January 8, 1992.