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...Whiz Bang, magazine of washroom humor. Publisher Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett used to refer often to "the henna-haired heckler," meaning his wife. Antoinette Fisher Fawcett. Of late such references have been absent. Publisher Fawcett last month got a divorce for infidelity "on occasions too numerous to separately cite." Last week the "heckler"?who prefers to call herself "the red headed dynamo" or "Animated Annette" found a new way to heckle her ex-spouse. With her first alimony checks she bought a neighboring bawdy joke-book called the Calgary Eye Opener, prepared to compete with Captain Billy...
...Opener was founded 20 years ago as an iconoclastic review of British and Canadian politics by the late Robert Chambers ("Bob") Edwards, M. P. who resided in Calgary, Alta. Three years after Publisher Edwards' death in 1922, Eye Opener was bought by the late Harvey Fawcett who had broken away from the publishing business of his brothers Wilford and Roscoe. Brother Harvey changed Eye Opener to its present form, ran it's circulation up to a claimed 200,000. When he died in 1928 the magazine was bought by one Henry Myers who in turn sold it to Mrs. Fawcett...
Upon taking over Eye Opener, Mrs. Fawcett (who claims credit for having "planned the creation of Whiz Bang" with her ex-husband) hired as editor Wilkie Mahoney, one-time ace "gagman" for Publisher Fawcett's Whiz Bang, Smokehouse Monthly and Hooey (TIME, Dec. 29, 1930; Dec. 14, 1931). Also, it was reported, she issued orders to correspondents to put less smut, more gusto into their work. There will be a colyum (corresponding to Captain Billy's "Drippings from the Fawcett") in which she will identify herself as "Happy Divorcee," "Animated Annette," "Happy Hostess," "Torrid Toreador...
...Farquhar '32 is managing the production this year, while W. V. M. Fawcett '21 is acting as cast director and Mr. Langdon Matthews as chorus director. The music has been written by Graham MacLeod...
Seeking Divorce. Wilford H. ("Cap-tain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Whiz Bang, Hooey, True Confessions, and the better mannered Amateur Golfer and Sportsmen's Magazine; from Annette Fawcett. Charge: infidelity "on occasions too numerous to separately cite...