haw I 1 broke into L the movie S hal a by herman by LUPE VELEZ ALMOST broke my neck before I 1 1 broke into the movies A ask k anybody who has worked in com comedies edles and tell you its the greatest training school in the world adrid lf if you survive I 1 boyl boy I 1 some of the things they make you do and some of tile the risks you have to take in the two I 1 liked it my life since I 1 was born near mexico city has been full of excitement and im always the happiest w where here there Is the most excitement I 1 was born lupe velea was tile the professional name of my mother mot lier an opera singer and when ident I 1 went on oil the stage I 1 took her name i stead instead n of my fathers lie he was a c colonel in tile army find and when I 1 was waa very young I 1 rode with him and saw men killed lots of excitement in those days at thirteen n my mother sent me to a convent in the united states our lady of the lake in san antonio studied english like to dance guess I 1 much of a success as a student went back to mexico got a job in a theater at the age of fifteen and danced my way to stardom on the musical comedy stage my isly salary was 50 a day which was the most mono money y earned by any star in dext mexico c 0 F wanted 75 dollars a day but the theater manager give me the raise so I 1 broke my contract had find an offer to go to cuba and another to star in buenos alres aires and then an american suggested I 1 go to ff that rich M A t kv k S lupo lupe velez ard bennett needed a girl like lupe to p play lay in the dove on the stage so I 1 started for hollaw hollywood cod started Is right for when I 1 reached the american border they let me pass said I 1 of age I 1 was seventeen all the way back to me mexico city I 1 I 1 cried but rd id show the them m I 1 would get to hollywood some da day Y I 1 appealed to our president to the minister to everybody in M mexico exico city after a lot of letter writing between mexico city and washington and what you call red tape ahey they said I 1 could cross the border hollywood at last and then rich illch ard bennett decided I 1 was too young and inexperienced to play in hla his show I 1 finally landed a job dancing in fanny bribes brices show at the music box theater in hollywood I 1 worked hard and one day I 1 was called to interview a moll motion on ale picture producer hal roa noach c h comedies sure sura I 1 could ninke make comedies com edlea I 1 worked in several darn near broke my neck but I 1 felt I 1 was getting some place in this town where what you do counts not what you did before you came douglas fairbanks was looking for an actress to play a wild mountain girl in the Cla gaucho ucho it was a spanish type I 1 got the part it was my big chance and I 1 gave them all the wildness they wanted I 1 rode with doug danced with him fought with him made love to him in the picture I 1 was I 1 happy when the gancho att opened and the public was nice to lupe not happy delirious I 1 feature productions inc of the united artists artiste signed me for a five year contract been awfully niceto noceto me made me a star and im still deliriously happy