LONG, AVON

LONG, AVON. Actor/Entertainer (18 June 1910 in Baltimore, Maryland). Although best known as an actor and dancer, he also sang. He received his musical education in the public schools of Baltimore, Maryland, where he came under the tutelage of W. Llewelyn Wilson in high school; at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts (1929), and at the Allied Art Center in Boston (1929). He began performing professionally during the 1930s, appearing in such places as the Cotton Club...