Word: velez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office boy during World War I. He has also been a stable boy, peanut salesman, barker and roustabout for Snapp Brothers' Circus, paid promoter of theatricals on Long Island and in Yellowstone Park. As a Hollywood press agent he plugged Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, George Arliss, Lupe Velez, Hedy Lamarr. During the past decade he press-agented more than 50 night clubs, in 1936 opened his own La Conga in Hollywood, followed it with several Beachcombers (in Manhattan, Providence, Boston, Miami Beach) and Manhattan's Copacabana. In these resorts he has featured tropic atmosphere and a tall, affirmative...
...current "March of Time," also appearing on the bill, gives a better representation of Mexico than does Lupe Velez in the second feature, "Mexican Spitfire," a quickie that took too long...
After signing papers that would extradite from Indiana Nancy Miller, Gypsy fortuneteller who allegedly swindled her of $2,500, volcanic Lupe Velez, Mexican cinemactress, erupted in Hollywood: "I'm really going to fix her up. Number one-I punch her in the nose. Number two-I kick her in the teeth. Number three-I pull her hair...
Cinemactress Lupe Velez, doing a vaudeville turn in Manhattan, wowed backstagers with an Adolf Hitler takeoff. "That Heetler ees my best take-off," she conceded modestly. "For a few friends I take off that Heetler, yes, but for the public, no! An artist has no business mixing up with politeecs...
Mexican Spitfire (RKO) adds old-fashioned horseplay and pie throwing to the timeworn comic mix-up of a henpecked U. S. husband impersonating an eccentric British lord, who keeps turning up at the wrong moment. The picture also tosses Lupe Velez, scratching and screaming in a tequila baritone, back into the U. S. cinemarena. Sample Velez quips, pointed up by prods, kicks, Mexican curses: "Shud up!", "Why don't you mind my own biz-ness?", "I'm just a big gallstone around his neck," "Shud...