Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, August 1922 · page 56 of 67
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This page from *Captain Billy's Whiz Bang* (a 1920s satirical magazine) contains Hollywood gossip presented as scandalous entertainment. The content mocks silent-film stars and industry practices: **Key targets:** - **Fannie Brice**: Implied to be undergoing cosmetic procedures in Paris - **Connie Talmadge**: Actress rushing her divorce, with a joke suggesting she'll marry European nobility ("hunt a count") - **Valentino**: The text reveals the major studio (Lasky) refused to bail out the troubled star; friends covered costs instead - **Gladys Walton** and **Priscilla Bonner**: Actresses divorcing husbands for infidelity and unemployment **The satire's point:** Hollywood's young stars—particularly women—are morally questionable (cosmetic surgery, multiple marriages, marrying at 17) and studios enable male misbehavior while avoiding responsibility. The tone is prurient gossip dressed as social commentary, typical of 1920s scandal magazines that titillated readers with celebrities' private troubles.
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54 Captain Billy's Whiz Bang several sleepy-eyed ingenues we can think of! If Fannie is having more things done to her face in Paris we'll expect to see her playing opposite Jackie Coogan when she returns! * * * CONNIE TALMADGE has been hurrying the judge about her divore decree. She wants the parchment in her trunk before she sails for Europe the end of June. Going to hunt a count Connie? * * * FILM producers out west are still trying to avoid becoming enmeshed in the antics of their naughty boy actors. The Lasky corporation, it is said, refused to furnish bail for Valentino. Thomas Meighan and other close friends of Valentino furnished the neces- sary cash. * * * THREE matrimonial barks have hit the sands out Pacific Coast way. Gladys Walton, Universal film star, is divorcing her husband, Frank R. Liddell, Jr., whom she married at the age of 17. Frank, she says, consistently chased parties and refused to work. Priscilla Bonner who has played leads with Charlie Ray, Will Rogers, Jack Pickford and others, is divorcing her husband, Lieut. Allen Wyness, a writer. Miss Bonner was formerly a Chicago society girl, daughter of Captain