Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 21, June, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy — John Shaqi
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 21, June, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyVarious
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 21, June, 1921: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
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American wit and humor -- Periodicals
Whiz Bang is not long-haired, consequently can’t be against a good boxing
contest or a fight, whatever it is they call them. But one may entertain
an opinion that some things were meant for men and if there is anything a
man is better fitted for, or can do better, than women, for heaven’s sake
let him do it.
The Alexandria-Alec, as it popularly is known, initiated the fad in this
burg. The society editors must have been there for one thing, judging
from elite galaxy of names which appeared next day.
Kid McCoy also was there, appearing somewhat better in his tux than most
of the non-athletic looking gentlemen present. The Kid emerged recently
from his ninth (or was it his fifteenth?) matrimonial experiment. He
married a dancer of the films, a bare-footed one. But evidently she put
on her shoes and walked out.
The literary lights were somewhat in evidence. Guy Price, Eddie Moriarity
and H. M. Walker, with the assumed or naturally bored air that seems
to mark the popular newspaper sporting writers, were taking in the
innovation or being innovated in the taking in, whichever it was.
Moriarity and Walker said who won the fights and from their dour looks
one would never judge they write funny titles for Semon and Lloyd.
Tom Mix jumped into the ring as referee. Those who watched paid well for
it. But there was dinner, of course, and a dance, thrown in.
Bebe Daniels was one of the first on the floor. Not that Bebe seemed
overly excited about it. But the proud looking young man who trotted her
out seemed not without fear that his appearance with the fair Bebe might
be overlooked if he didn’t get an early start upon the ball room boards.
But Bebe was worth looking at; incidentally, one of the few modest
looking women on the floor. They say she is stuck up. They say that
about most of the really stellar female attractions of the screen. But
the insider opines that Bebe’s bored look combines a sense of humor and
the common sense of a young girl who finds that the glitter and night
adulation are mostly 18 carat bunc. Yet Bebe danced and danced.
As we have said before, society doesn’t know what to do about the picture
stars, especially if they are starettes. But to miss seeing them, so one
can talk about what they wore and whom they were with, that would be
ultra ignoramus, as one might aptly say. Just what a bunch of supposedly
high bred society women, Miss Morgan to the contrary, can see in the
spectacle of two men slamming each other around the ring passeth, no
doubt, some portion of the male element.
Sounds like we are getting sermony. Far be it from us. There are worse
things than women in evening garb gushing over mostly naked men fighting
in the main dining room of our swell hotels.
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