Chapter 13
Section 13 of Captain Billy's Whiz-Bang, Volume 3, No. 29, January 1922. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Volume 3, Number 29, January 1922 By W. H. Fawcett Movie Hot Stuff
Clara Smith-Hammond, now Mrs. John Gorman, is no longer in possession of her $2,500 automobile. The car was recently attached for payments overdue. Her picture, Fate, was given its final death blow as a money producer when the Arbuckle affair roused the censorship broil anew. Because his old friend Claire Windsor met Charlie Chaplin at the depot in Los Angeles
on his recent return from Europe, the newspapers hinted a new romance. However, Whizbang's astute investigators did not go to the depot. But upon taking a chance, peek, into Charlie's drawing room, discovered among a very few close friends, little May Collins and her mama. Evidently, the little Collins-Chaplin romance is still on.
Pretty foxy, Charlie. Married men out west are having an awful time. You know, the cleverest hold-up men and crooks in the USA beat it for California every fall to keep abreast to the tourist wealth which goes west as well. These desperados often take an auto of an evening.
drive into the suburban towns or near the lonely stretches of the Pacific Beach, and hold up loving couples who are spooning in autos along the roadside. Now, you see, if you happen to be married and are out with the pretty steno or an extra girl, and you are held up, relieved of diamonds, watches, and money, you can't very well report it to the police, can you?
Reporters have an annoying way of getting news from police chiefs, and, regardless of your rage against thugs and hold-up men, You surmise it would be better to swallow your loss. Domestic note. Alice Brady, who in private life is Mrs. Thomas Crane,
has retired from stage and screen, it is said, in anticipation of an interesting family event. From location to a one-night stand in the county jail was the recent plight of Texas Guinean, film beauty and former musical comedy favorite.
Approximately fifteen hours the movie star basked in the Bastille, and all on account of an unpaid old grocery bill. The turnkeys are glad she is out. They are willing she reign on Broadway's if she will keep herself out of Prison Row. The tank heroes shaved themselves as never before,
donned Sunday neckties, and bartered keepsakes for standing room back of the great steel doorway, where they might perchance catch a glimpse of Texas. However, they were disappointed for Texas was temperamental and made no appearance in the downstairs prison drawing room.
Nose gaze and nose arrived, but Texas announced from her dressing room that she never received before noon. According to rumors, Mrs. Pete and Madelaine Obenshain displayed real professional jealousy.
End of section 13. Read by C. Machado
