Deryk Barker wrote:

>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!)

Allan Jones was one of my earliest introducers to classical music.  He
was in a film called *There's Magic in Music* (1941) in which he persuades
Toodles LaVerne, a burlesque singer, played and sung by Susanna Foster, to
come to the Interlochen Music Camp (which Toodles thinks is reform school).
She sings "Voices of Spring" and later, w/ Jones, some words set to Grieg's
Piano Concerto.  There's also a musical skit of two groups of opera singers
appearing on the stage, one of which had been advised that they were going
to be singing *Carmen* while the other was expected to sing *Faust*, each
singing to tunes from their respective operas that theirs was the opera to
be performed.

Walter Meyer