Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #27 — page 15: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains a "Questions and Answers" humor section featuring satirical advice. The jokes rely on wordplay and contemporary cultural references: 1. **"Soubrette"** joke plays on theatrical terminology—a soubrette is a young female stage role, here humorously redefined as an underpaid performer. 2. **Three-foot kiss** references movie romance conventions of the era, with the absurdist answer about asbestos alarm clocks. 3. **"Getting Gertie's Garter"** (mentioned at bottom) was apparently a popular theatrical production of the period. The humor is mild, vaudeville-style comedy typical of 1920s pulp magazines. It targets show business, movies, and entertainment industry practices familiar to contemporary readers but now historically obscure.