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...cellar of the Cuban Embassy at Washington. General Carlos Garcia Velez rummaged through the last dusty stack of state documents. Then he mopped his dirty forehead, admitted failure in his search. For weeks, General Garcia Velez had been looking for the original Message to Garcia, made famed by the late Elbert Hubbard. In 1898, he knew his father, the Rebel Chieftain Calixto Garcia, received a momentous message from President McKinley asking his aid against the Spaniards. Like Writer Hubbard, General Carlos Garcia Velez was sure that it had been a written document and that Col. Andrew Summers Rowan had "sealed...
...Francisco old Col. Rowan, now retired, heard of the search, declared: "The message is not lost because there was no message to lose; I carried it in my head." Protested General Garcia Velez: "But certainly there was a written message. I remember it distinctly." Finally the War Department located Col. Rowan's report on the mission, announced that it felt sure that there had been no written message to Garcia...
...Live Again (Samuel Goldwyn). When he was considering Tolstoy's Resurrection for blonde and beauteous Anna Sten's second U. S. appearance, Producer Samuel Goldwyn was reminded that it had been made before, with Lupe Velez and Dolores Del Rio. Said he: "It has not been made until I make it." His explanation: both earlier productions failed to stress sufficiently Resurrection's social message...
Strictly Dynamite (RKO) is an uncomplimentary portrait of a radio clown (Jimmy Durante); his partner and mistress (Lupe Velez); his gagwriter (Norman Foster); and the gag-writer's agent. In it Jimmy Durante says '"incredulous" when he means "incredible"; "confederate" when he means "inveterate." The narrative is interrupted at intervals by a telephone repairman who calls up someone he dislikes to say "Nuts...
...Take a look. See eef you can find one black and blue on me." Clad only in a pink "tightie." Cinemactress Lupe Velez pirouetted before a woman reporter in her dressing room in a Brooklyn theatre to scotch a rumor that Husband Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller beat her. Miss Velez: "I sue you, darlin', if you say he ponch...