The Cotton Club: Blackberries Revue Mordecai, Wells & Taylor performer LaRedd, Cora performer Wessels, Henry performer Dixon, Mildred performer Daly & Carter performer Strutters, Darktown performer Mordecai, Jimmy performer Wells, Dickie performer Taylor, Ernest performer Theatrical Performance 1929-09 Cotton Club September 1929 opening. Dan Healy's new revue at the Cotton Cub with music by Duke Ellington Orchestra included the class act tap dancing team of Mordecai, Wells & Taylor, and dancers Henry Wessels, Mildred Dixon, and Cora LaRedd. Two shows nightly. The first show (12:15 A.M.) opened with Leitha Hill, Johnson's Jubilee Singers and the 5 Dancing Buddies in "We're Goin' a Pickin' Cotton"; the fourth number featured Daly & Carter in a "Smart Stepping! Stair Dance!"; followed by "Congo Jamboree" with Cora LaRedd & Ensemble in "an exhibition of unrestrained Nubian abandon"; followed by Mordecai, Wells & Taylor (Jimmy Mordecai, Dickie Wells, and Ernest Taylor), announced as "The Hot Feet Boys. They just burn the boards up!"; Cora La Redd was ninth on the program, announced as "A Terpsichore Riot!: followed by Madeline Belt, the 5 Dancing Buddies & Ensemble in "The Darktown Strutters' Parade-- the best drilled chorus in clubdom." The second show (2:00 A.M.) repeated performances by Daly & Carter, Cora La Redd, and Mordecai, Wells & Taylor, with a Grand Finale by the entire company. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Cora LaRedd (biography) loc.music.tdabio.122 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.897