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CALIFORNIA: Guadaloupe

In Hollywood, whose great ladies may water-ski in evening gowns, Guadaloupe Velez de Villalobos became rich and famous and was known as Lupe Velez. She lived in a Spanish mansion, bathed in a jade-green tub, slept in a bed which was eight feet square, and was courted by many handsome men. She had been impatient with her good home in Mexico and with San Antonio's Convent of Our Lady of the Lake, where she was instructed in the duties of womanhood. But although she lived in Hollywood for 17 years and changed the...

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