Q: It has come to my attention that Nacogdoches takes credit for creating the Marx Brothers. Can you verify or debunk this peculiar claim?B. Robison, AustinA: Outlandish though this bit of Lone Star lore may seem, the Texanist can, with a reasonable degree of certitude, confirm it. Before the New York–bred Marx Brothers became comedy immortals, three of them toured as part of a musical group known as the Four Nightingales. Sometime between 1907 and 1914, during a performance at Nacogdoches’s opera house, word spread through the theater that a mule had gotten loose outside—which, no surprise, prompted the East Texas audience to abruptly head for the doors to have a look.“We were accustomed to heckling and insults, but that made us furious,” Groucho Marx…
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