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“‘Said Miss Tucker laughingly!’ All right,” laughed Sophie. “They read those darn fool things you write. You wouldn’t believe it, the way folks read some of your things. Remember that interview you wrote with me as a singing waitress? They used it in my last divorce. But where am I? Oh, yes, money. They wouldn’t give me all this money if I didn’t deliver; if I didn’t have the class, the finish, the subtlety. I’d never got it if I’d stuck to the rough stuff; I’d never got anywhere or anything.”
“Sophie, are those pearls real?”
She unclasped the necklace and placed it in my hand.
“Heft ’em!” answered Sophie.
They weighed true. Sophie’s other gauds spoke for themselves. Her bracelet was of diamonds, likewise her watch, and her rings held single gleaming stones whose surfaces were smaller than a quarter but greater than a dime, and there was a wicked winking one as big as a policeman’s button which heaved at her breast.
“You ought to build a theater,” I said, by way of relieving the strain.
“I’m going to,” said Sophie. “That’s what I’m going to do with some of my money. I’m going to build right here in Chicago the Sophie Tucker Theater and the Sophie Tucker Hotel and the Sophie Tucker Restaurant. Why not? I’m an institution here now. My name is the best kind of a draw. There aren’t three greater money-getters in the world than a theater, a hotel and a restaurant, and I’ll be there with all three. And believe me, boy, I’ll get the first-class trade.”
“Society ?”
“Sure, Society. I don’t meet nothing else, hardly, out at Edelweiss Gardens, where I’m hostess and every