[78-L] Subject: the Tragic Death of Nat M. Wills

[David Lennick]

The White Rats was an early actors' union.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A03E3DC1330E233A2575BC0A9679D946196D6CF

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bruce78rpm at comcast.net wrote:
> Here is another article which indicates that 3 years earlier, Wills was going through some very serious financial difficulties as well as problems with his 3rd wife, he claimed she was a spendthrift, she denied it, and blamed him for the financial problems. I wonder what the White Rat Exchange Co. was. It was listed as one of the creditors. 
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> http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D04E1D9153AE733A25751C0A9639C946596D6CF 
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> Bruce 
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> I've read some brief biographies of Wills which assumed that this was a suicide. The article indicates that it was pretty clearly an accident. 
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