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to herself? Does she have to flirt all over the place?'
"It is my own brother'. See how people talk. So what matter? I have never had a real affair. If some mens get crazy about me, I cannot help it. As long as I don't go
crazy about them —
"Only once was I really in love. It was for two years. Two years in love with one mans. He was a Mexican — a very rich mans. He was twenty-four. I was fifteen and a half. We were engaged to be married. But Mexicans are so jealous. I like much better American mens. They know how to play better. He did not want me to go on the stage. He did not want me to show my legs before peoples. I could not stand for anyone to interfere with my work. If a man do not love me, what does it matter? But if the public stop loving Lupe, I will die! I know it.
THE OLDER THE BETTER
"T LIKE older mens
A best. About fortyfive or forty-eight. They are much the most interesting persons. At first I run around with Ben Lyon. He's a cute kid. I like him but I no love him.
"And Nils Asther. He seems older because he is European. He has a fascination. But — ." She shrugged her shoulders.
"And Victor Fleming! I like him because he is a devil with womens. But he is the kind of mans I would never get in serious with. I like him. But I am more than a devil than he is. That is why I never fall in love with him. He's on everybody's love-list!
Four of the men who have come into Lupe Velez's love-life story: across the top of the two pages, from left to right, Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, Nils Asther and Tom Mix. And below them, Lupe herself at the bottom of this page, in the dress she wore when, at the Wampas Ball, she was elected a Baby Star
"Of course, every time you go out with mens in Hollywood, they put it in newspapers. I go once with Charlie Chaplin. Just once — to the opening of 'Lilac Time.' They say we are going together. But I like Charlie. I love to listen to him. He has so many brains. He is — what you say? — a geeh-i-oos. His talk teach me somethings. I like to be with mens whose brains teach me somethings. I want to learn things in this country. Of course, I flirt with him. I flirt with every mans, but that means nothing."
She stopped a moment. Another peal of long, unrestrained, Lupe Velez laughter. "The other day a mans calls me up. He want to see me. He is going away. But I say I do not know him. 'But you winkle your eyes at me at a party,' he tells me. 'But I winkle my eyes all the time at all the mens. What does that matter?' and I hang up the telephone on m him.
"I like to make mens jealous. I go crazy
if I cannot make them jealous. I buy
pretty clothes because of the mens. If there
wasn't any mens in the world, I wouldn't
dress. What good would it do to spend
all that money on pretty clothes if
there were no mens to look at you?
MORE AS "MAMMY" THAN MANS
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LOVE Al Jolson on the
stage. I love his singing.
When I see him in person, I
think of him as I hear him
when he sing 'Mammy.'
^ Just twice I go out with
V him. To the May fair
.£% and to the Victor
Hugo. He doesn't
A interest me in per
W son because I can't
remember he is a
mans. I look at him
and think only of how he
sings 'Mammy.' Yet people
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