We will now sing that little Nanny-goat song entitled “Mammy.” Also that
well known ballad “Just a Japanese Ashcan.”
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The stage contortionist leads a double life.
_Smokehouse Poetry_
_Every once in a while we get regular he-man verse prompted by dreams
in some feather bed, but from the pen of Budd L. McKillips, Whiz Bang
readers again are to be treated with a poem inspired by real life. In
the Winter Annual of the Whiz Bang we reproduced Mr. McKillips’ poem
“After the Raid,” inspired while Mr. McKillips, as a newspaper reporter,
“covered” story of the raid on the National Dutch Room cabaret in
Minneapolis. Recently pretty Zelda Crosby, picture scenario writer, of
New York, committed suicide in a hotel by drinking poison, as a result of
a prominent film magnate spurning her after teaching her the ways of love
and folly. This magnate, like many other alleged reformers, has been a
leading figure in the movement for purity in pictures. The title of Mr.
McKillips poem, written exclusively for the Whiz Bang, is “The Girl From
Over ‘There’.” In addition to that poem we are publishing a crackerjack
rival to the “Gila Monster Route,” with which Winter Annual readers have
fallen in love, called “The Blanket Stiff.”_
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