Marx Brothers since he did not join the act until Gummo had departed. As with Groucho, three explanations exist for Herbert's name "Zeppo": Maxine Marx reported in "The Unknown Marx Brothers" that the brothers listed their "real" names (Julius, Leonard, Adolph, Milton, and Herbert) on playbills and in programs, and only used the nicknames behind the scenes, until Alexander Woollcott overheard them calling one another by the nicknames. He asked them why they used their real names publicly when they had such wonderful nicknames, and they replied, "That wouldn't be dignified." Woollcott answered with a belly laugh. Woollcott did not meet the
Arthur Marx comedy "The Good Guys" and four episodes of the ill-fated "Life with Lucy". Marx was also co-creator of the TV series "Mickey" starring Mickey Rooney. Marx wrote both fiction (often humorous) and non-fiction (often show-biz related) pieces for magazines throughout his career. Along with Fisher, he co-authored the play "The Impossible Years", which ran for three seasons on Broadway and starred Alan King, and "Minnie's Boys", a musical about the Marx Brothers' vaudeville years that starred Shelley Winters. They also wrote "My Daughter's Rated X", which won the Straw Hat award for best new comedy on the summer stock circuit,