The Washington times., 1915-08-08
Peace Playlet and Pictures Offer Midsummer Ente
TWinkline Stars and a
80. Satellite or T1vO
BY GARDNER MACK.

When the far sung midnight choo-
choo becinders the right-of-way be-
tween here and New York tonight It
which Will repose-though perhaps not
| rest-a medium sized man. having the
appearance Of a prosperous banker or
retired Hyiator who earrses In ,ons his
with other baggage which he didn't
mention when the station attendants
made him nil out the blank lor check
ing his trunk. He will sleep. perhaps.
The: man is Nat NJ. wills. Nat Wills
, Is Q parent. he Is half of the parents
| of the champion pure milk baby in the
heard that Washington was to have a
pure milk crusade and proclaim the
merits OF healthy infants last week.
he hurriedly had himself headiined at
these days but literature on how, to
raise babies. HIS infant was Just
year old July 4. and he figures that
The ;ne the .attsss
yepr up to date, is because he was at
tracted to the little mother crusade by
Una Clayton's skctch months ago. and
| he became 60 Interested In pure milk.
feed his child patent foods. but insisted
on getting the right kind OF milk and
test tubes. etc. with which to mod! modify, y
|
10 milk in laborstories and test tubes.
Nat left his cool. comfortable summer
home on Long Island to come here and
qualify in the milk crusade as an origl-
nal little d. They ,yns bs aidn
get single chance to sing his better
baby songs or tell his pure milk jokes.
The C,diense insisted on his regular line
into Il, 'S' fsreWe! Aa tour TO washinston Is his
home town. He was born on Ninth
street. near New York avenue-h!s fam
lily lives there vet. His father was q
wills. and Nat was a printer; q real es-
tate operative. and a minstrel before ne
decided to make a living as an actor.
| He appeared for the first time on any
play in which Minnie Palmer was the
star. And then he was accustomed to
| appearing as end man OF an amateur
m .nstrel trope at the old Willard Hall,
opening in the tramp comedian busi-
ness one year when the real estate mar
ket went wrong. and he became tramp
comedian. First. he went out with
produced his own show. He succeeded
as tramp-in fact. he p one Of the few
regular union tramps WHO has made the
business pay large dividends. AS a
| vaudcN lille headliner he has made several
| national banks surpluses plethoric.
| But now he Is to forsake vaudeville
for the legitimate again, and will become
the principal comedian OF Charles Dill
inEhams big venture at the Hippodrome
In New York. Dillingham; expects to do
all sorts Of unusual thlngs at the Hippo
drome. and he has engaged Nat Wills
and Sousa's Band to help him do them
two Washington headliners, by the way.
| So Nat turned his visit here into a
farewell tour. 1t being his last visit to
Washington as a vaudevillian before 60
ing into rehearsal for the Hippodrome.
, OF course. this doesn't mean Nat has
quit Washington for good. Farewell
touring Is only one branch Of the the
I atrical business. Bcrnhardt has made 1t
pay for years. and Forbee-Robertson
gathered such a lot OF stray nickels dur
Ing the last two seasons that he's COM
Ing back for more next season So Nat
thinks It ought to be q paying profess
| sion.
Still he's disa appointed. He wanted to
qualify as Il little mother. In time he'll
get over the disappointment. nut the
chances are he'll never appear on a bill
with Una Clayton again!
Baltimore was Jared out Of its ha-
! bitual emotional rut few days ago
tarred to its foundations. but with the
kind of ajar that leaves the tarree
| wondering why It had never happened
| beforehand hoping it would. Young
| Agnes Whalen. Of Washington, sang
for the Baltimoreans-and they wrote
pieces for the newspapers about her.
wrote notes to her and made pretty
| speeches-those who could get to her
personaily-all because Of the way she