Zeppo Marx was from East Frisia in Germany; and his father was a native of France, and worked as a tailor. As with all of the Marx Brothers, there are different theories as to where Zeppo got his stage name: Groucho said in his Carnegie Hall concert in 1972 that the name was derived from the Zeppelin airship. Zeppo's ex-wife Barbara Sinatra repeated this in her 2011 book, "Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank". His brother Harpo offered a different account in his 1961 autobiography, "Harpo Speaks!," claiming (p. 130) that there was a popular trained chimpanzee named Mr. Zippo, and
S v Marx S v Marx In S v Marx, an important case in South African criminal law, the relationship of the appellant and his wife had deteriorated markedly during the course of their nineteen-year marriage. She had become verbally abusive and aggressive towards him, and humiliated him in public. On the evening in question, she had taunted and abused him. This, coupled with other factors, acted as a trigger for the appellant to shoot her. He was later convicted of the murder of his wife and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. On appeal against both conviction and sentence, the court held, that