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She Began Kissing At Seven She Loves Her Dog, But
No Man
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AM a flirt. I know it.
"Whenever I see a man, there is some thing in here," Lupe Velez pounded both fists on her breast, "which must make me winkle my eyes at him. I cannot help myself any more than you can help yourself from breathing.
"Sometimes I say I will never flirt again. I sit around. I grow sick. When Icannot flirt with some mens, I get a fever.
"But I am a good girl. People say many things which are not kind and which are not good "about Lupe. Bah! I pay no attention, know I am good, so I do worry. I
"You see, I do not take mens serious. They are not to be taken serious. Every week I change. If you take them serious, they think you are really in love. No mans likes to have womans take them serious.
"My first kiss!" Lupe laughed. Now to put the laugh of Lupe on paper is as impossible as for a man to put her heart in his pocket. Lupe — the effervescent, the volatile, the primitive Lupe. What words could ever describe her? What screen could ever truly reproduce her?
"Oh, for my first kiss you would have to go back to when I was seven. I used to sell my kisses for
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pictures of the movie stars. The boy who could get me the most pictures of the womens who play in the pictures — for him I save all of my best kisses.
KISSES FOR CASH
ONCE in a while I give them little ones for candy and other things that they bring me. If my father ask where I get these things, I slip my hands in his coat and pull out pieces of money from his pockets.
"'There,' I say, 'that is how I get them: by taking money out of your pockets.'
"But that is all I have ever sell is
my kisses. And kisses — bah, what do
kisses matter?
"People sometimes say I am crazy.
I like to be crazy. People like talk and
T "want to give them something to talk:
about. It makes them so happy. I like
to be always happy, so why should I
not help to make other people
happy?
, "The mens I have gone with in Hollywood?" Another laugh, to be described only as the laugh of Lupe. "I have flirt, with the whole film colony. Why not? I am not serious. What harm is a little flirting?
"I flirt with my own father and my own brother. I dress my brother in a tuxedo and take him to the Ambassador, dancing. I hold his hands, winkle my eyes at him and people say, 'Why don't Lupe Velez ■ spurr keep her affairs