Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #3 — page 27: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains two separate humorous pieces from *Captain Billy's Whiz Bang*, a satirical magazine popular in the 1920s-30s. The first story mocks Mrs. Brown's anxiety about attending her first cinema showing in small-town Slowville. She dresses formally in her "Sunday bonnet and cloak" for this novelty entertainment, then panics during a dusty cowboy film, frantically worried the action scenes will ruin her clothes. The second piece is a satirical news item about Charles Hugh Wilson arrested for bigamy. His jail-composed poem uses Biblical kings (Solomon and David) as justification for multiple marriages, humorously suggesting that matrimony improved his character—a pointed joke about his obvious hypocrisy and the absurdity of his defense.