The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08
Dolly Finds Mr. Nat Wills Very Serious
 Minded and Most Charming Southern Gentleman
Fly DOLLY DALRyMPIE
Listen. angelfaees:

Listen, angelfaees:
 I've got a secret to tell you
 Nat Wills q couldn't call him "Mr"- the old tramp-to save my life. could you0 is a real, rightly. tru-true, hon est-to-goodness human being.
 Aren't you surprised
 We'll
 He is. And just about the incest specimen of the genus homo that I've met in many F a day.
 l had expected to see a person just as funny off of the stage as he is Ion, ' and I never was so petrified in my lifel
 l went to see him with the expectation of laughing my fool self nearly to death. In fact
 l had a terrible spell of the. .,giggles" before l ever got there.
 l had keyed myself up to the point of at least snatchiug a few of his best stories to tell you today; of course l knew I couldn't get them all.
 But
 Imagine my surprise when a very hand some, beautifully grooned, serious-minded gentleman extended his hand in greeting and bade me welcome in true old Vir- giIia style
 For
 I may as well tell you right now that MT. Git goes mighty hard to say it, but, well-you see l don't know him very we'll and he didn't ask be to call him Nat" although I would have been de- lighted) is a southerner, born and bred, from the good old town of Fredericks- burg, Va, and a more charming gentle man I have never met.
 He looks the part, every inch of him, too.
 More like prosperous Broadway iinan- cier-perhaps-or a retired capitalist maybe-but with all the savoir faire and grace that characterizes the real south erner, no matter whether he's prosperous or not.
 Of course
 When l saw ''the lay of the land" l couldn't start cut like a schoolgirl and tell the man face to face that 1 had come to see him because l knew he be funny.
 But
 We'll
 I kind of" hlnted at it. automatically, you know, just like that, and after much naneuvering and side stepping. l did really manage to extract at least one story
 But
 Quite against his will assure you Because
 He's serious minded.
 Takes everything seriously !. From himself
 To
 Poor little mel
 Isn't that a joke?
 We'll
 I know you are dying to here the story he told me.
 It's the very cleverest thing I've heard for many a day, and brand new.
 Isn't that splendid?
 It was in his stunt" so he told me, al the Lambs Gambol in New York, recently when MT. Wills made one of the biggest hits" of his fife
 MT. DeWolf Hopper Che of tn multi tudinous wives) was the interlocutor."
 But then
 Of course you read all about that
 Anyway
 It was MT. CMersy! how that sticks) Wills turn.
 MT. Hooper, How are you tonight, Mr. Wills?"
 MT. Wills. Never felt better in my life.'
 Mir. Hopper: MT. Wills, what is that l
  see sticking out of your pocket?"
 Mr. Wills: That's a music box. Mir. Hoppei."
 Mr. Hopper: "A music box?'
 MT. Wills: ''Yes, music box" MT. Hopper: What are you carrying a music box about in your pocket for, MT Wills?" MT. Wills: Well, you see it's this way The subway Is so crowded when | go home in the evening that l never can get l a seat, so l just take this little music box around with me, and when it plays The Star Spangled Banner everybody stands up, and then l get a seat.' Now Isn't that worth the price of admission l think SO That was the only funny thing Mr Wills told me, and when I asked hin how he could be so screamingly funny or  |