Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, December 1924 · page 68 of 71
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #67 — page 68: what you’re looking at
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This page collects brief jokes and verses typical of *Whiz Bang*, a humor magazine popular after WWI. The content reflects 1920s social attitudes: **"Whiz Bang Vaudeville"** presents a marital joke: a man chases a stranger's hat blown away—the punchline being his wife observes him doing so, creating comedic suspicion. **The kissing aphorism** is a play on relative popularity: kissing as an "art form" has more enthusiasts than music itself. **"Tune Sounds a Little Flat"** is a skating-rink pun: girls skate to song titles that sound like roller-rink movements ("East Slide, West Slide"). **"The Artist"** satirizes the "flapper"—the modern young woman of the 1920s—specifically her makeup practices. The verse acknowledges she's not literally a painter but *performs* artistry through cosmetics. "Carmen" (carmine/red) makeup was fashionable. The humor accepts women's makeup as entertainingly deceptive but harmless. These pieces target contemporary social anxieties about changing gender roles, courtship, and women's independence with lighthearted ridicule rather than serious critique.
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=[Farmyard Fun and Filosophy]= Whiz Bang Vaudeville “You look warm!” “I’ve been chasing a hat.” “Did your hat blow off?” “It wasn’t my hat; it belonged to some one else.” “More fool you to chase a stranger’s hat.” “But it had a pretty girl under it.” “Did you catch it?” “Yes, my wife saw me chasing it!” * * * Kissing, like music, is an art; but fewer people take interest in music. * * * Tune Sounds a Little Flat Ella—“What tune did you skate to at the roller rinks last night?” Ethel—“East Slide, West Slide, All Around the Hall.” * * * The Artist All are not painters who paint; Lookit the flapper: she ain’t. But she gives the impression That it’s her profession— Though, really, I make no complaint! If she dabs it on thoughtfully thin, To camouflage lips, cheeks and chin, A splatter of carmen Is often quite charmin’— No matter what shape they are in! =[63]=