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Like pressagents, oil promoters and manufacturers of face mud, witches must never allow a client to feel doubt about the product. This is particularly true in the matter of hexes and evil spells. When scraggly-haired, Mexican-born Mrs. Martina Cordova burned black candles and stirred up foul-smelling liquids in her Denver rooming house, she looked very impressive. But her method of applying and removing hexes was too routine...
Last week this machine-age approach got Mrs. Cordova into trouble. Three of her best clients complained about her work to District Attorney James T. Burke. One aggrieved man with a "stomach misery" said he had paid her $60, had drunk a quart of mysterious liquid every three days for five months without any sign of improvement. Another had given her $25 to slap a hex on an undesirable daughter-in-law. The damned thing hadn't worked. Neither had a $40 wife-luring...
District Attorney Burke was slightly baffled at first. If Mrs. Cordova was a witch-even an unsuccessful witch-what could he do about it? He set a deputy to searching the statutes, discovered that a law prohibiting palmistry, mesmerism and seership also made "crafty sciences" illegal. Promptly he jailed Mrs. Cordova; just as promptly she got out-by muttering Spanish phrases, throwing dark glances and posting $1,000 bail...
...minutes after Masquerade begins, idealistic cabaret Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour finds herself in Mexico City, knee-deep in a diamond theft, and falling in love with Patric Knowles. As a sort of cushion-shot to win his venomous wife (Ann Dvorak) back from her bullfighting Mexican lover (Arturo de Cordova), Knowles helps Dorothy masquerade as a Countess and gives her plenty of opportunity for song and romance with the bullfighter on the flower-strewn waters of Lake Xochimilco...
...Medal for Benny (Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Cordova; TIME...