An Evening with Maurice Chevalier Wessels, Henry performer Berry, Ananias performer Concert 1930-03-30 Fulton Theater A prestigious two-week series of concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra (played before their nightly appearances at the Cotton Club) in tandem with French entertainer Maurice Chevalier. In the first half of the program, Ellington featured two dancers, one a class hoofer (Henri Wessels) and another an acrobatic tap dancer (Ananias Berry) "is a show stopper with any production. This lad, just a boy, will go a long way." wrote Variety. "Berry is half of one of America's most famous dance teams, the Berry Brothers." Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.900