Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, April 1923 · page 23 of 68
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This is a gossip and entertainment column from an early 1920s satirical magazine. It contains brief items about film actors and society figures of the era—Geno Corrado (actor in Gloria Swanson films), Jack Dempsey (heavyweight boxer), Viola Dana (silent film star), and Lois Wilson (actress). The humor is gentle celebrity gossip rather than sharp satire. Items mock romantic entanglements, actresses' fashion choices (bobbed hair, short skirts), and social climbing. The Viola Dana item pokes fun at her defiant embrace of modern "flapper" style. The Warren Bovard item suggests his romantic attention shifted from film star Lois Wilson to a "young student miss"—implying he abandoned a glamorous match for an ordinary university girl. The overall tone treats Hollywood and Los Angeles high society as sources of amusing human-interest stories for readers.
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23 Captain Billy's Whiz Bang GENO CORRADO, who plays a leading role in “My American Wife” with Gloria Swanson has recently taken unto himself a Yankee girl in the person of Bernice Askin, just returned from a tour of the vaudeville circuits. Corrado comes from a well known family of Florence, Italy. * * * Our March dope on Jack Dempsey is a romance with Doris Deane. April showers will wash up new angle-worms. * * * ADIRECTOR has been tactfully suggesting that Viola Dana let her bobbed hair grow long again. Viola says short skirts, bobbed hair and jazz music are her story and she’s going to stick to them. * * * Frankie Bailey, the one-time toast of New York musical shows and famous for her shapely legs, was one of the extras in “The Famous Mrs. Fair.” Stage struck matinee girls, please note. * * * WARREN BOVARD, in the front rank of Los Angeles society eligibles, paid quite marked attention to Lois Wilson last year. The beautiful film star was his partner at the Bachelor’s Ball—the crowning social event of the year in Los Angeles society. Recently Bovard announced his engagement to a young student miss at the University of Southern California, where he acts as comp-troller.