Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, July 1922 · page 58 of 67
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This page from the satirical magazine contains four brief gossip items and jokes about 1920s entertainment figures: 1. **Robert's lawsuit**: A quip about a young child suing over life's hardships—satirizing frivolous litigation trends. 2. **Virginia Fox and Billy Joy**: Reports of their impending marriage. Billy Joy, brother of actress Leatrice Joy, formed a comedy company to star Fox. 3. **Unemployed show girl**: A humorous anecdote about a former theater performer working as a waitress who impulsively greets an old acquaintance ("Bertie") at a formal dinner by dropping soup and covering his eyes—costing her the job. The joke ridicules her lack of professional restraint. 4. **Constance Talmadge's elopement**: Confirms the actress eloped with wealthy Greek tobacco manufacturer John Pialoglow to Greenwich, Connecticut on Christmas Day 1920, defying parental opposition. The page is primarily celebrity gossip and light humor rather than political satire, reflecting the magazine's focus on entertainment-world scandals and social observation.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang 57 ranch. Robert is the youngest person ever known to bring a lawsuit. We shall soon ex- pect to hear that new born babes are sueing their parents for bringing them into a hard and wicked world. * * * RUMORS are current that Virginia Fox and Billy Joy are soon to wed. Billy is the brother of Leatrice Joy, Lasky star. He has just formed the Joy Comedy Company, which will star Miss Fox. * * * FORMER New York show girls have been turning to all sorts of other trades since the theatrical slump began. One of these hired herself out as a waitress in a Fifth Ave- nue mansion. She always was a friendly little thing but her impulsiveness cost her her job. During a formal dinner party when a certain aspiring young man was casting sheep's eyes at the wealthy hostess and her daughter, he was surprised by the entrance of his old friend, the show girl, who impulsively dropped the soup and clapping both hands over his eyes, giggled, “Bertie!” Guess who!” * * * CONSTANCE TALMADGE'S shattered romance with John Pialoglow, wealthy Greek tobacco manufacturer, is a reality. Braving parental objections, Miss Talmadge eloped with Pialoglow to Greenwich, Conn., Christmas Day in 1920. Dorothy Gish and