John Smyth ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >An unusually frisky:) Deryk Barker asks if anyone knows the connection >between VW and the Marx Bros. > >I don't know, but I *hope* it doesn't degrade the music of "Cotswold >Romance." Only John has bitten, so here goes: The connection is one Allan Jones who, in November 1929, played the lead in Hugh the Drover in its first N American performance, in Toronto. Jones is proabably best remembered as the romantic "lead" in A Night at the Opera. (Still, better that way around than having Zeppo sing Vaughan Williams!) Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]