The career of dance duo Tiny Anne and Tony Small (Anne Kozak and Tony Genovese) is like a comet: a sudden unexpected appearance from out of nowhere, a bright circuit  around the sun, a quick fade.  They shone during a curious transitional period in the entertainment industry, clinging to the vestiges of vaudeville with its travelling revues of assorted performers working the circuits of regional theatres.  As distinct sub-genres of entertainment emerged, they did not necessarily supplant the old ways; assimilation was an option, such as the hybrid shows that included both live performances and motion picture presentations. 
      No real back story for Tiny Anne and Tony Small is known; we have only what was preserved in the scrapbooks of Anne Kozak, along with a few snatches of newsreel footage.  The first media trace was an article by Roger Dakin, “3 Lindy Hop Couples Win Harvest Chance,” appearing in the August 19, 1939 edition of the New York Daily News.  It announced the results of the Harvest Moon Ball Lindy Hop preliminary competition held the previous night at the Roseland Ballroom, accompanied by a photo of Tiny Anne and Tony Small in action, with the caption titled “Swing Man”.
     The 1939 Harvest Moon Ball Championships (“Finals”) were held on August 30 at Madison Square Garden, jam-packed for the occasion.  Lindy Hop, one of the six competition categories, was the crowd-pleasing-est grand finale of the evening; dancing in this category was to the music of Jimmy Dorsey and his Swing Band.  Although Tiny Anne and Tony Small did not win the championship, their splash performance earned them a niche in a three-week run at New York’s esteemed Paramount Theatre in Times Square, headlined by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (the movie for the run was “Honeymoon in Bali”).  
     The Miller entourage (with a slightly different assortment of acts and a different movie) went on the road in late October, for a week in Philadelphia, followed by a week in Pittsburgh.  In early November 1939 Tiny Anne and Tony Small got hooked up to tour with Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra, playing Washington D.C., Youngstown (Ohio), Indianapolis, Atlanta, and Akron.  This extended sequence featured, among others, Jack Haley, fresh from his star turn as the Tin Man in “The Wizard of Oz”; in one newspaper ad he has top billing.  According to an album annotation, it seems that Anne and Jack danced a finale duet.
     It’s not clear when this road rotation ended; early 1940 seems likely.  The next trace is a one-off gig at Grossinger’s (in the Catskills) with a salmagundi revue of non-A-list colleagues on July 6, 1940.  From there it’s back to Roseland and the Lindy Hop preliminaries on August 23, 1940 (music by the Johnny Long band), as reported the next day in the NY Daily News.  Their outlandish act was candy for the photographers, with two action photos (captioned “Swing ‘Git!/Yowsah!” and “Whee!”) printed to accompany the account by William Murtha (“Lindy Hoppers Win Way to Harvest Ball”).  Once again Tiny Anne and Tony Small advanced to the championship competition at Madison Square Garden on August 28, where they danced to music by the Woody Herman Orchestra, and once again their dance antics there were captured in newsreel footage.
     Then… an abrupt segue to crickets.  What accounts for the end of the career?  Perhaps there came a reality-check realization of the difficulties, sacrifices, and uncertainties of sustaining a career in the entertainment industry, bursting the bubble of starry-eyed youth.
     There might also have been an element of parental disapproval.  While the 20-year-old Anne was officially living with her immigrant parents (and three older siblings) in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood (and receiving some mail at that location), that may not reflect reality.  In the various newspaper accounts and elsewhere, Anne was reported to live on at 603 East 6th Street, in the East Village, not far from where the Kozak family lived prior to decamping to Brooklyn. 
     While six adults might have plausibly shared the Brooklyn apartment, it surely would have been a tight fit.  Many immigrant families endured crowded living conditions, which were perhaps less acceptable to their first-generation adult offspring.  The uncertainty of Anne’s residential history is unlikely to be clarified.  And just sayin’, Tony Genovese likewise does not appear on the 1940 census at the address reported in the Daily News.
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     The Harvest Moon Ball is covered in several stand-alone web pages devoted to it.  This page documents the appearances of Tiny Anne & Tony Small during the interval between the Harvest Moon Ball finals on August 30, 1939 and the preliminaries on August 23, 1940.