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
Pity Poor Elinor Glyn! Screen folk, suspicious because England’s
titian-haired authoress wrote “Three Weeks,” are reported sleuthing
around the Los Angeles hotels and cafes and the Lasky studio, trying
to catch Mrs. Glyn flirting! Leastwise, the gossips are busy, and the
dainty morsel upon which they are chewing is none other than Mrs. Glyn’s
purported fondness for dancing.
“Where’s Mrs. Glyn?” they ask around the Lasky studio.
“Oh, somewhere dancing, I suppose,” comes a reply in much the same tone
as was used during the war when the ladies danced while friend husband
dodged Whiz Bangs in France.
Mrs. Glyn’s famous novel, “Three Weeks,” might have been her worst
personal faux pas. At the great Navy ball in the Ambassador hotel, she
remained for the most part of the evening on the balcony overlooking the
ball-room floor, accompanied by one of her youthful actor admirers, and
as her gaze passed over the heads of mere ensigns, four-stripers looked
up, but feared to tread, maybe. At least, Mrs. Glyn did not dance with
many, according to the correspondent of this great family journal.
Mrs. Glyn is writing a new story for the Lasky company. Of course the
Lasky people aren’t telling around just yet what the story is to be
about, but the gossips whisper that it’s to be like this:
A girl, born of a Russian dancer mother, and a staid American father,
grows up into a beautiful woman. However, everyone who knew of her
mother’s wild, wild life, fear the girl will develop into the same sort
of female. But she never does, until, way out west, she is bitten by a
snake. Then she becomes so, so wild! Just what form her wildness takes,
has not yet been ascertained. At any rate, the hero is right there at the
climax wishing she wasn’t wild (?) so he heroically sucks the poison from
her wound and quiets her nerves again! It’s called “The Great Moment.”
* * * * *
It seems that since “Mary” and “Doug.” have been married, they have
turned into regular old match-makers. They are working on all their
friends. Can it be they are just now concentrating on sweet, blonde
Marjorie Daw, who is one of Mary Pickford’s most intimate friends?
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