Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #21 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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This is a gossip column about 1920s Hollywood celebrities and scandals. The main target is **Elinor Glyn**, a British novelist and screenwriter famous for her novel "Three Weeks." The satire mocks how gossip columnists are pursuing her, supposedly trying to catch her flirting—implying scandalous behavior. The column references other Hollywood figures in courtship drama: **Mary and Doug** (likely Douglas Fairbanks), **Bennie Ziedman** and **Marjorie Daw**, **Rudolph Valentino** and his separation from **Jane Acker**, and **Bill Hart** and **Jane Novak**. The humor plays on wartime absurdity—women dancing while husbands dodged combat ("Whiz Bangs") in France—suggesting celebrity gossip is equally frivolous. Glyn's famous novel is called "her worst personal faux pas," satirizing how scandal overshadows artistic work.