A Choice of Evils

“Would you marry her just because she’s wealthy? Don’t you know she has a

questionable past?”

“Well, what of it? If I don’t marry her I shall have a questionable

future.”

_Picture Land Flattery_

_Editor’s Note: Here is a story for young girls with movie

ambitions. In fact it’s a crackerjack of a story for women in

general. I do not believe the public, outside of Los Angeles,

realizes that the favorite form for gaining a lady’s favor is

to tell her she ought to be in pictures._

_Girls strange to Los Angeles fall hard for this style of

flattery, very often with serious final result. Designing men

quite frequently bunco the fair and trusting creatures and

“those who know” declare it is surprising how the ladies like

the movie flattery._

_But here is the story, true to nature and only intended for

the eyes of the fair sex._

Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 18, March, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy · 第 10 / 76 题