Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #19 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This gossip column from *Whiz Bang* magazine discusses Charlie Chaplin's romantic life. The piece reports that Chaplin has moved on from his marriage to Mildred Harris and is now romantically involved with a seventeen-year-old girl named Mary Pickford (identified as "a victim of gossips") who worked on an Anito Loos film production. The column's author, Richmond, sarcastically suggests Chaplin prefers intellectually witty women over "wild women," implying his attraction to the young girl contradicts this claim. The satire mocks both Chaplin's romantic choices and the Hollywood gossip surrounding them—typical of *Whiz Bang*'s irreverent celebrity coverage aimed at exposing the private scandals of entertainment figures.