"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional ladyLoos, Anita
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"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional lady
Loos, Anita
Diary fiction; Humorous stories; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Millionaires -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction
Well Dorothy and I are really on the ship sailing to Europe as anyone
could tell by looking at the ocean. I always love the ocean. I mean I
always love a ship and I really love the Majestic because you would not
know it was a ship because it is just like being at the Ritz, and the
steward says the ocean is not so obnoxious this month as it generally
is. So Mr. Eisman is going to meet us next month in Paris because he
has to be there on business. I mean he always says that there is really
no place to see the latest styles in buttons like Paris.
So Dorothy is out taking a walk up and down the deck with a gentleman
she met on the steps, but I am not going to waste my time going around
with gentlemen because if I did nothing but go around I would not
finish my diary or read good books which I am always reading to improve
my mind. But Dorothy really does not care about her mind and I always
scold her because she does nothing but waste her time by going around
with gentlemen who do not have anything, when Eddie Goldmark of the
Goldmark Films is really quite wealthy and can make a girl delightful
presents. But she does nothing but waste her time and yesterday, which
was really the day before we sailed, she would not go to luncheon with
Mr. Goldmark but she went to luncheon to meet a gentleman called Mr.
Mencken from Baltimore who really only prints a green magazine which
has not even got any pictures in it. But Mr. Eisman is always saying
that every girl does not want to get ahead and get educated like me.
So Mr. Eisman and Lulu come down to the boat to see me off and Lulu
cried quite a lot. I mean I really believe she could not care any more
for me if she was light and not colored. Lulu has had a very sad life
because when she was quite young a pullman porter fell madly in love
with her. So she believed him and he lured her away from her home to
Ashtabula and deceived her there. So she finally found out that she had
been deceived and she really was broken hearted and when she tried to
go back home she found out that it was to late because her best girl
friend, who she had always trusted, had stolen her husband and he would
not take Lulu back. So I have always said to her she could always work
for me and she is going to take care of the apartment until I get back,
because I would not sublet the apartment because Dorothy sublet her
apartment when she went to Europe last year and the gentleman who
sublet the apartment allowed girls to pay calls on him who were not
nice.
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