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

[David Lennick]

NORM COHEN wrote:
> It was a union that actively tried to keep African-Americans and women from
> top billing on the stage.  They were particulary opposed to Bert Williams &
> Geo. Walker in the early 20th c.
> Norm Cohen

I did not know that!

dl

> 
> 
>> [Original Message]
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: 3/3/2009 2:25:13 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Subject:  the Tragic Death of Nat M. Wills
>>
>> The White Rats was an early actors' union.
>>
> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A03E3DC1330E233A2575BC0A9679
> D946196D6CF
>> dl
>>
>> 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. 
>>>
> http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D04E1D9153AE733A2575
> 1C0A9639C946596D6CF 
>>> Bruce 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Randy Skretvedt" <forwardintothepast at yahoo.com> 
>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com 
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 11:56:30 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
>>> Subject: [78-L] Subject: the Tragic Death of Nat M. Wills 
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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