Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #3 — page 18: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily text-based commentary rather than cartoon content. It discusses whether theater is becoming immoral, arguing that motion pictures—not stage plays—have actually *reduced* scandalous theatrical productions. The article critiques Olga Nethersole, an English actress prominent in the 1880s-90s who famously starred in provocative plays including "Sappho" (which caused particular controversy). Nethersole claimed she played such roles to expose social suffering, not for sensationalism. The Whiz Bang's point appears to be that cinema has displaced theater as the primary source of morally questionable entertainment, making the earlier theatrical scandals seem quaint by comparison. The piece uses Nethersole as a historical example of past theatrical controversy now largely forgotten.