Actorviews (1923)

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146 Actorviews now. It’s going to tickle you to death to see how classical and how personal I’ve made my work.” “Whatdoyoumean personal?” “Me — myself — Sophie Tucker. I put myself into the words, into the story, of every song I sing. I dramatize myself. I’m my own heroine.” “Life is incomplete till you’ve heard Sophie sing ‘I Used to Love You,’ ” observed the rival drama critic. “Everybody that hears me sing it thinks it’s my own divorce I’m singing about,” said Sophie — “I make it that personal. Listen” (and she slowly hymned, lifting a nourished shoulder to the rhythm) : “I used to love you, but it's all over now, You've got it all over town That you threw me down — But you shouldn’t let that kind of story go roun’." A pair of critics employed their unaccustomed hands to applaud. One of them told Sophie she was a marvel. Another that she ought to be in the movies. “I may try that, too,” said the undaunted Sophie. “I’ve had a letter from Fox, asking me to make a test picture.” “With lions?” I asked. “Whatdoyoumean with lions!” exploded Sophie. “But” — she seemed to reflect — “why not? What’s a lion or two to a woman who’s had my husbands — eh. old darling?” And again Sophie Tucker bestowed a kiss upon my rival — the incomparable Amy Leslie of The Chicago Daily News.