Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, August 1922 · page 59 of 67
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This page from the satirical magazine contains celebrity gossip and scandal commentary rather than cartoons. It references the early 1920s Hollywood scandals that devastated the film industry's reputation. The text alludes to real events: the "Arbuckle tragedy" (Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle's 1921 rape accusation) and the "Taylor affair" (director William Desmond Taylor's 1922 murder). The piece critiques Hollywood excess—describing film magnates paying a dancer $1,000 to perform a forbidden striptease at a private party—while noting these scandals haven't reached public print yet. The opening mocks the trend of handsome foreign actors like Valentino, sardonically warning they should "put it away in the old sock" before losing their appeal to blonde actresses. The final paragraph references Omar Locklear and Willis Brown, aviators involved in early aviation stunts. The magazine appears focused on exposing Hollywood's hypocrisy and moral failings to readers.
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang 57 and Ramon Samaniego, a young Spaniard who promises to duplicate Valentino's success, are all the vogue. Whiz Bang's advice to these olive skinned, sleek-haired boys is to put it away in the old sock before a blonde darling with blue eyes becomes the rage! * * * RUMOUR has it that Eugene O'Brien, popular star of stage and screen, will wed Laura Hope Crews who is now on tour in “Mr. Pim Passes By.” * * * THE Arbuckle tragedy and the Taylor affair have made the film world suffer heavily. Still, only recently, a leading man was elevated to stardom just after he left jail because of a scandalous charge. In New York, just recently, two of the most important magnates in the film world paid a girl dancer $1,000 early in the morning after a night of carousing in a wild resort, to disrobe entirely before the remaining guests and execute a dance forbidden at secret order stags. Neither of these matters has reached public print but it does seem that reasonable discretion might be used to avoid more public hue and cry. * * * IT IS understood the young Hollywood film star, who was so friendly with the two aviators, Omar Locklear and Willis Brown,