Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Lookie! Lupe! Whoopee ! [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 45 ] the table in the host's chair. Darned lucky there was nothing to be carved. Gary was at the foot of the table, Lupe at my right. "I don't like those dam' big chairs," said Lupe. "They're uncomfortable." The food was excellent and substantial, and served perfectly. Fruit cocktail, soup, chicken, lima beans, chocolate pudding with whipped cream, cookies and coffee. We topped off with a round of creme dc mcnthe liqueur. "Isn't this nicer than going out?" beamed Lupe. "Yes," smiled I at Lupe, glaring at Gary out of my other eye. "T RATHER stay home," continued Lupe, -*■ "and do what I dam' please. I have to pose when I go out. I have to be a lady. Here I can sing and dance and have a good time. I get free tickets to shows. I don't go. I haven't been to Mayfair in a year. If I go out with Gar-ee, people say I do it for publicity. We are just friends, wonderful friends. We are not engaged." Darned good friends, sez I, when Lupe can't see another fellow without Gary playing guard for the home team. Before we left the table Lupe went into her imitations of La Goudal, La Swanson and La Del Rio. Lupe is as pleased as a child with a red wagon to be told that she looks like Swanson. After dinner we all had a romp with the dogs in the garden. Did you ever romp with dogs in the garden? I hadn't had so much fun since the Civil War. The Velez menagerie is varied and numerous. There are two Chihuahuas, the kind with hair; a Persian cat, a canary, a Great Dane, and one of those English bull pups with a pushedin face and adenoids. The bull pup belongs to Gar}', but he knows his way around the Velez garden. He has to be fished out of the swimming pool at regular intervals. The bull is a born comedian. Being built so close to the ground he always looks as if he were sitting down. He amused us for half an hour by trying to catch the rays of a flashlight. 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