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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...
Caught in the old confidence game was superstitious Cinemactress Lupe Velez. She let a gypsy woman persuade her to tie two $1,000 bills and $500 in assorted currency in a piece of red silk to be prayed over as protection against her enemies, got the silk back wrapped around blank paper...
Billy Rose, the little man with elephantiasis of the imagination, was showing little interest in the former Mr. Lupe Velez' chest expansion...