Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, December 1921 · page 47 of 68
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This page contains three gossip items targeting 1920s Hollywood celebrities: 1. **"Bull" Montana**: A boxer/actor rumored to marry. The joke mocks Douglas Fairbanks's wife Mary for considering Montana "declasse" (lowbrow)—suggesting social climbing by the wealthy Fairbanks family. 2. **Viola Dana & aviators**: Speculates on why actress Viola Dana stopped appearing publicly with aviator Earl Daugherty after her friend Orma Locklear (a famous pilot) died. The item insinuates romantic or scandalous involvement. 3. **Elinor Glyn**: English romance novelist attending a Hollywood event. The satire targets her affectation of eating dinner in long white gloves—mocking her pretensions to aristocratic elegance while struggling with practical dining (olives, corn, asparagus). The incomplete final sentence suggests gossip about her male companion. The column ridicules celebrities for pretension, scandal, and social posturing typical of 1920s gossip magazines.
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45 Captain Billy's Whiz Bang Hollywood Flirtations T IS rumored around filmland that hand-some (?) “Bull” Montana is shortly to be married. Doug Fairbanks, in lowbrow days before he married Mary, used to pal around with “Bull” and other ringside favor-ites, but 'tis said Mary ruled against Bull as being “declasse.” * * * T WILL be remembered that Viola Dana was a very close friend of Orma Locklear, the famous aviator, who was killed about a year ago. A few months later, she was often seen with Earl Daugherty, also a well known aviator, who maintains one of the finest flying fields in Southern California. Now Earl and Viola are never seen together. What happened, Viola? * * * T IS SAID on “Elinor Glyn Night” at the Ambassador Cocoanut Grove, our visit-ing English authoress ate her entire supper without once removing her long white gloves. Those were “great moments” when the olives, corn and asparagus came on! Elinor was again accompanied by that tall, youngish