Editing Groucho Marx (section)

=== Vaudeville ===
Marx started his career in [[vaudeville]] in 1905 when he joined up with an act called The Leroy Trio.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=The New Humor in the Progressive Era|last=DesRochers|first=Rick|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2014|isbn=978-1-137-35742-7|location=New York, New York|pages=83, 84, 85}}</ref> He answered a newspaper [[classified advertising|want ad]] by a man named Robin Leroy who was looking for a boy to join his group as a singer. Marx was hired along with fellow vaudeville actor Johnny Morris. Through this act, Marx got his first taste of life as a vaudeville performer. In 1909, Marx and his brothers had become a group act, at first called The Three Nightingales and later The Four Nightingales.<ref name=":0" /> The brothers' mother, [[Minnie Marx]], was the group's manager, putting them together and booking their shows. The group had a rocky start, performing in less than adequate venues and rarely, if ever, being paid for their performances.<ref name=":0" /> Eventually brother [[Gummo Marx|Milton (Gummo)]] left the act to serve in World War I and was replaced by [[Zeppo Marx|Herbert (Zeppo)]], and the group became known as the [[Marx Brothers]].<ref name=":0" /> Their first successful show was ''Fun In Hi Skule'' (1910).<ref name=":0" />