Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #28 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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This page contains no cartoon. It's a written column titled "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" describing the author's recent travels to Los Angeles. The text discusses visits to motion picture studios (Universal City and Katherine MacDonald's studio), noting sympathetically that young actresses like Miss MacDonald and Bebe Daniels face criticism directed at the film industry itself rather than their work. The author describes filming at Universal under Director Eddie Laemmle in a "wild-west scene," a trip to Tijuana, Mexico, and mentions restrictions on American aircraft crossing the Mexican border due to "booze running"—a reference to Prohibition-era smuggling. The final section mentions meeting Vice Admiral William Shoemaker at a Los Angeles mansion once occupied by silent film stars Mary Pickford and Mary Miles Minter.