Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, January 1922 · page 31 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #29 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Captain Billy's Whiz Bang* (a 1920s-era satirical magazine) contains celebrity gossip presented as humor. **First item**: Shannon Day, a Ziegfeld Follies dancer, is romantically linked with Monte Katterjohn, a screenwriter. The joke mocks both her disinterest in intellectual pursuits (she fell asleep at a formal Authors League dinner) and her vanity—she cares more about a dress from the famous Dolly Sisters than "authors." It's satirizing shallow starlet culture. **Second item**: Opera singer Geraldine Farrar deliberately avoided socializing during a California visit, keeping herself isolated at a hotel. The gossip implies she was snubbing former Hollywood friends, though her reasoning remains unclear from this excerpt. Both items reflect the magazine's comedic focus on Hollywood scandal and the perceived frivolousness or pretension of entertainment industry figures—typical satirical content for this era.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang 29 Hollywood Flirtations LITTLE SHANNON DAY, a Ziegfeld Folly girl, is out west playing in a Lasky picture. Monte Katterjohn, Lasky scen- ario writer has been seen with Miss Shannon very frequently during the past two years, both in New York and in Hollywood. He went so far as to take her to a formal Authors League Dinner last year and the speeches and the min- utes of the meeting and the pleas for unpaid dues were such a tax on Shannon's mind that she was caught dropping off to sleep many times before the tiresome evening was over. “I can't see nothing to authors” quotes Shannon as she smoothes a new dress which Mamma Dolly of the famous Dolly Sisters team made for her just before she left New York. * * * WHILE Geraldine Farrar stayed in South- ern California last month, fulfilling her concert engagements she kept herself much secluded in her bungalow at the Hotel Maryland in Pasadena. Her parents were with her. Many of her former friends in the film colony attempted to see her in vain and it is surmised that Miss Farrar wished to keep to