Word: lupe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadway-Hollywood) is a feature-length production based on the frail supposition that the spectacle of a Broadway colyumist introducing pseudo-celebrities constitutes entertainment. It shows Colyumist Ed Sullivan of the New York Daily News chatting with patrons and performers at three Manhattan cafés, includes glimpses of Lupe Velez, Primo Camera, Ruth Etting, Ernst Lubitsch, et al. amiably dancing, talking, bowing. Best shot: Pugilist Maxie Rosenbloom looking bored...
...Strike Me Pink" -- Majestic, 44th Street W.--An unbeatable trio in Hope Williams, who lends the Park Avenue tone, Jimmy Durante with the horselaugh and omnipresent schnozzlo, and Lupe Velez with eyes and things and sighs. Smooth music...
Self-sufficient Hope Williams is called upon to insert the Park Avenue element into the proceedings. As in The New Yorkers, in which she was also associated with uncouth Mr. Durante, she does not have much to do except feed him a few lines. Lively Lupe Velez, having abandoned most of the Mexican accent she affected in Ziegfeld's Hot-Cha, spends most of her time shaking herself at Funnyman Durante, which calls forth from him the bitter remark: "Now they're makin' me a juvenile...
...Lupe Velez: "Ha! So you are jealous...
...magazine. He has a tremendous talent for making people like him, and among those who do are most of the nation's electric-lit names. He works hard and circulates fast, so that readers of The Family Circle are let in on what Lupe Velez said to Johnny Weissmuller when she wanted him to hit a drunk at the next table; what Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Crawford told about their trip to Europe; how George Olsen travelled all the way to Cincinnati because he thought he could beat Ben Bernie at golf. The Family Circle also brightens...