Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, August 1922 · page 30 of 67
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This page contains miscellaneous satirical humor typical of early 20th-century American magazines. The content includes: **"Reel Honor and Real"** – A mock-serious critique of silent film melodrama, satirizing overwrought acting in movies about feminine virtue (actress Muriel Milford in "Her Honor Above Everything"). The satire targets both the film industry's heavy-handed morality tales and actors' exaggerated performances. **"Little Willie"** – A dark nursery rhyme joke about a mischievous child, typical period humor playing on childhood misbehavior. **"Try a Step-Ladder"** – A clean joke about height differences in romance, relying on wordplay. **"Sect Stuff"** – A pointless circular joke about a flea and fly, ending dismissively ("Oh piffle"), likely mocking nonsensical humor itself. **Army Telegram** – Brief satire of military bureaucracy, with a soldier requesting leave extension via A.W.O.L. (Absent Without Leave), humorously framing unauthorized absence as an official request. The page is primarily comedic filler rather than topical satire.
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28 ptain Billy's Whiz Bang Reel Honor and Real Muriel Milford, the beautiful movie actress, was being filmed in her latest picture play, “Her Honor Above Everything.” It was a strong production. At the end of part three where the beautiful actress stood with auto-matic pistol leveled at the villain and cried: “Advance one step and I will kill you. I hold my hon-or above ev-ery-thing!” she fairly out-did herself. Her acting was very realistic. The director told her to later as they sat in her apartment. * * * Little Willie, mean as zell, Pushed his sister in the well, Mother said, in drawing water, “My, it’s hard to raise a daughter.” * * * Try a Step-Ladder Mabel—Jack, if a girl kissed you what would you do? Jack—Kiss her back, of course. Mabel—Suppose she were a tall girl? * * * Sect Stuff The flea and the fly were out for a stroll, Said the flea: “Let us fly.” Said the fly: “Let us flee.” They flipped up for it, The coin stood on edge, So they went back home. —Oh piffle. * * * Copy of telegram received at Army Hearquarters; “Please extend my A. W. O. L. ten days.”