Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, September 1921 · page 62 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #27 — page 62: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate humor pieces with no visible cartoons or caricatures: 1. **"The Life of the Party"** — A poem by R.C. Gordon about Roscoe Arbuckle (a famous silent film comedian) hosting a Labor Day party that ends tragically when a female guest dies. The satire mocks how the drunk partygoers ignored her distress, and how Arbuckle's only concern was his consumed liquor. 2. **"A London Report"** — A brief anecdote about a woman assaulted twice by the same man; she mistook the first kick in darkness for her husband's behavior, but screamed when she realized it was a stranger. This is dark humor about domestic violence normalcy. 3. A closing Kipling quote about "squeaking wheels" getting attention. The page is text-based satire rather than illustrated cartoons.