Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, July 1922 · page 23 of 67
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This page from **Captain Billy's Whiz Bang** (a satirical humor magazine) contains three gossip items mocking Hollywood celebrities and entertainers circa the 1920s. The jokes target: 1. **Cecile DeMille** and other performers adopting children—satirizing them as morally superior while implying the entertainment industry is wicked 2. **Miss du Pont** divorcing her husband (a Chicago salesman), with humor at the salesman's inadequate income compared to her film star earnings 3. An incomplete item about **Henry Lehrman** (likely a film director) and a prank involving a Los Angeles Times personal ad The satire mocks: entertainment industry moral hypocrisy, the wealth gap between celebrities and ordinary workers, and Hollywood gossip culture itself. The magazine's tone is irreverent, treating famous performers as subjects of ridicule rather than admiration—typical of this era's satirical humor targeting entertainment elites.
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22 Captain Billy's Whiz Bang ber, Fannie has advanced ideas and doesn't believe that a married team should occupy the same flat because "so many egg stains appear on the breakfast cloths." Betty and friend husband seem to be well disposed at the breakfast table, for they are still occupying the famous apartment together. * * * CECILE DE MILLE has adopted three children. Nora Bayes has just adopted two homeless waifs. Mr. and Mrs. Sim Collins, of the vaudeville team of Collins and Hart, have adopted altogether 26 children. The last six, just added to their fold, were made orphans because of a murder at Lynn- brook, L. I. Go to it, ministers of the gospel! Here's a live topic for a sermon anent the wicked stage folk. * * * MISS DU PONT, heroine of "Foolish Wives" and other Universal pictures, was divorced from her husband, Joseph Hannan, a Chicago salesman, quite recently. It is said that Hannan has taken the matter to heart, but that he admits that a salesman's salary is no match for that of a film star. * * * HAS someone played a practical joke on Henry Lehrman? An advertisement in the "Personal" column of a recent issue of the Los Angeles Times read "Personal—