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
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