Leonard played the part of a seedy Italian con man and taught himself to play the piano, sometimes ending a glissando by "shooting" the last note with his index finger. As the act developed, the brothers created distinct stage personae, and in most instances would portray that persona regardless of their character in the play. Called "The Nightingales", Milton and Julius would sing on stage with Mabel O'Donnell as early as 1905, but the act quickly became a variety show in burlesque and vaudeville, with each brother taking part in comic sketches and/or showcasing his musical instrument of choice. Originally the Marx Brothers were a singing group with Minnie managing the ensemble. Five other sons would be born in the ensuing years: He did not live out the year, succumbing to tuberculosis (or more probably influenza) at the age of seven months on 17 July 1886. In 1886 Minnie and Sam had their first child, a son they named Manfred. The couple would reside with her parents on East 85th Street, in what was then the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side, an area made up of poor Italians, Germans, and Irish. Their parents, father Levy a ventriloquist and mother Fanny a harpist, would emigrate to the United States in 1880, settling in New York City, and it was there at the age of 20 that Minnie met and married a tailor named Samuel Marx, an immigrant from Mertzwiller, Alsace, France who was born October 23, 1859. A younger brother - Abraham Elieser Adolf - was born a few years later he would later become known as comedian and talent agent Al Shean.
Their mother was Miene "Minnie" Schönberg, who was born on Novemin Dornum, East Frisia in what is now Germany. The brothers own lives and future careers would be influenced by their own family.
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