Word: indios
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Lifesaver. In San Antonio he worked by day and studied English at night school. He picked cotton, herded sheep, stuck pigs. The pig smell was a drawback at Saturday night dances, so Indio went to work in a foundry...
...sharp-eyed Emilio saved a girl from drowning off a Chicago beach. She turned out to be an Earl Carroll dancer. Indio was picked up by the Edgewater Beach theatrical crowd, and his proficiency at Latin dances attracted the attention of Rudolph Valentino, who became his friend. After Valentino's death, Indio rode the funeral train to Los Angeles, landed there broke and jobless...
...Hollywood, Indio worked as an extra, later got "heavy" parts in westerns. But a woman was his undoing. A Los Angeles husband believed that the romantic Mexican was making a fool of him and, according to Indio had him deported because he was in the U.S. illegally...
Crass Coincidence. Back in his homeland, Indio shot up rapidly in Mexican movies, was soon a leading actor. From a friendly, peripatetic U.S. script writer, with whom he became buddies, Indio learned story technique. In time he became the country's leading director, turned out the enormously successful films that Dolores del Rio made in Mexico after leaving Hollywood. For three years, Indio and Dolores were always seen together. Now they are only socially polite...
...some months now, Indio has had a new, a dream girl. In her honor, he even had the name of the street he has built on changed to "La Calzada de la Duke Olivia" (The Street of the Sweet Olivia). That he had never seen Olivia only heightened the poignancy of the romantic situation. But in August his old U.S. script-writing buddy, Marcus Goodrich, married Emilio's dream girl, whose name is Olivia de Havilland...