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