This at some point led to the well-known Nextwave protect parody of the Civil War party, which examine "Mark Millar Licks Goats". Millar apparently took it in stride. The dropped film Convention City (1933) consists of a drunk conventioneer foremost a goat back again to his room. During World War II, he served as an Engine Room Artificer 4th Class with the Royal Navy aboard the plane carrier HMS Glorious.