Nat Ayer

[1] In 1913 he appeared at the Tivoli music hall in the Strand, with Harry Williams, performing songs of their own composition, with Ayer at the piano.

[3] Later in the same year, the two appeared in The Hippodrome Revue, when The Times described them thus: Mr. Harry Williams and Mr Nat D. Ayer are an American pair of a type now becoming familiar to London.

[4]One of Ayer's and Williams's songs, "That Ragtime Suffragette", was the subject of a court case in October 1913, when the lyricist and composer successfully took action to prevent others from violating its copyright.

[5] In 1916, Ayer composed the music for the hit show The Bing Boys Are Here, with a book by George Grossmith Jr. and Fred Thompson and lyrics by Clifford Grey.

[8] Ayer's last show of 1916, which he composed and appeared in, was the musical comedy Houp La!, starring Gertie Millar.