Bricktop interviewed at age 70 #3, part 3

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{"value"=>"<p>v01f03: Discusses her relationships and nightlife in Harlem, and Paris in the 1920s. Mentions Jack Diamond, Eddie Diamond, and \"N--\" Nate Raymond, a white gangster and \"one of the loves of my life.\" Discusses Chicago and the influence of her mother, Hattie Elizabeth Thompson Smith: \"I'm 100% American Negro, but I really got a trigger Irish temper, and I get that from my mother.\" Describes brief stints in Omaha, Los Angeles, and San Francisco in 1916. Talks about her boyfriend at that time, a drug-addicted pimp named Walter Delaney. Discusses Harlem clubs, including Connie's Inn. Mentions performing with the vaudeville group the Panama Trio, made up of Bricktop, Florence Mills, and Cora Green. Discusses how Florence and Palmer Jones helped her go to Paris to work at Le Grand Duc, initially for six months but she \"never came back for nearly seventeen years.\" Part 3 of 3.</p>"}
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