* Charles (Cookie) Cook; Vaudeville Tap Dancer, Teacher

Charles (Cookie) Cook, 77, a vaudeville tap and acrobatic dancer and teacher for more than 50 years. He began performing as a child with Garbage and the Two Cans and Sarah Venable and Her Picks. In 1930, he and Ernest (Brownie) Brown formed the headline dance and comedy team Cook and Brown. Their act, seen in such places as New York’s Cotton Club, combined tumbling, dance and comedic patter. More recently, Cook performed in the film “Cotton Club,” at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and at a 1990 tap festival in New York. On Thursday in New York City of kidney failure.