Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, May 1922 · page 14 of 68
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This is a gossip column from *Captain Billy's Whiz Bang*, a satirical magazine, mocking early 1920s Hollywood celebrities. The page reports on several scandals involving silent film stars: Jack White's allegedly crude behavior toward actress Pauline Starke; George Walsh's complicated marital status (his ex Seena Owen arrives claiming she's still married); actress Kitty Gordon divorcing a British nobleman to marry an "honest" American businessman; and actor Herbert Rawlinson's affair on Catalina Island while his wife (Roberta Arnold) was absent—which the magazine claims to have predicted months earlier. The satire targets both the celebrities' moral failings and the breathless, gossipy nature of celebrity journalism itself. The tone is amused, condescending mockery of the entertainment industry's romantic chaos and the public's appetite for such scandal.
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12 Captain Billy's Whiz Bang THE gossips have it that Jack White is a cave man. Pauline Starke, they say, has rejected Jack twice for his cave man ten- dencies, but, we've again seen them dancing together of late. * * * LOS ANGELES papers had no sooner printed the delicious secret concerning forthcoming wedding plans of George Walsh and Estelle Taylor, than Seena Owen took a transcontinental and arrived in Holly- wood to announce that as far as she knew she hadn't yet had a divorce from Mr. Walsh! These little trivialities are so upsetting! * * * “THE good God made me, managers played me and I fought to the front with my back,” says Kitty Gordon. “Now I crave a real American husband.” Kitty now awaits her divorce from Lord Henry Beresford of London, and announces she will next wed Ralph Ranlet, a real honest- to-goodness New York business man. * * * IF you'll refer to your last summer's issues of Whiz Bang you will find that this astute little family journal reported that Herbert Rawlinson was playing about Catalina with a number of adoring young debutantes and that friend wife, Roberta Arnold, didn't seem to be anywhere about. We “smelled a mouse” even as far back as last August. Her-