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...contents revealed touches of bawdry, sexy double-entendres, shady epigrams, scatological jokes and the like which immediately reminded knowing readers of Captain Billy's Whiz Batig, Jim Jam Jems, Smokehouse Monthly. There, in fact, was a true clue to Hooey's publisher, listed in the masthead as Popular Magazines Inc., of Louisville, Ky. Popular Magazines Inc. is controlled by Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett and his brother Roscoe (TIME...
...become Screen Play, a "high class fan magazine." Also in 1926 Whiz Bang's poetry column budded off as Smokehouse Monthly, ". . . dedicated to all glorious guzzlers, woozy warblers, rakes, scallawags, and other good people who still be lieve in the joy of living." The "smoke house" in the masthead is drawn to re semble a backhouse. Strangely out of keeping with its unmannered fellows is Amateur Golfer & Sportsmen, a smart, tasteful magazine of regional appeal in the Northwest. It was started in 1927 chiefly as a hobby, and partly because Brother Roscoe Fawcett was onetime state golf champion. Whiz...
...mainsail in a 17-mi. breeze, had to withdraw. Skipper Vanderbilt of Enterprise put about likewise, refused the hollow victory. Designer W. Starling Burgess went aloft in a bo'sun's chair to make sure Enterprise's rigging was shipshape. The halyard fouled and he was stuck at the masthead, red whiskers blowing in the breeze, for more than an hour. In the last race of the week, Enterprise was the only contender to finish within the time limit, again proving her ability to move without wind...
Dangerous Paradise (Paramount). In the masthead of this film the producers announce that it is "based on incidents from a novel by Joseph Conrad," a guarded statement obviously intended to divert the criticism which, based on incidents from Dangerous Paradise, would be leveled at them if they admitted that the novel was the famous Victory. As a matter of fact the picture is no more unfaithful to its material than other, franker attempts to make scenarios out of Conrad's books. The adventurous and fantastic shell of the story has been preserved; the thought that burned behind Conrad's carved...
...Locked Door (United Artists). When you discover that the door in question was distinguished from other doors on the corridor by the words "Do Not Disturb" you will realize, if you have not already learned it from the masthead, that this piece is an adaptation of "The Sign On the Door," a melodrama that has been aliment for road-shows for a decade or two. It is a problem play, the chief problem for skeptical spectators being whether or not the door of an ordinary hotel-apartment can be locked from the outside so that the person inside cannot...