"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
So then I told Major Falcon about the time in Arkansas when Papa sent
me to Little Rock to study how to become a stenographer. I mean Papa
and I had quite a little quarrel because Papa did not like a gentleman
who used to pay calls on me in the park and Papa thought it would do me
good to get away for awhile. So I was in the business colledge in
Little Rock for about a week when a gentleman called Mr. Jennings paid
a call on the business colledge because he wanted to have a new
stenographer. So he looked over all we colledge girls and he picked me
out. So he told our teacher that he would help me finish my course in
his office because he was only a lawyer and I really did not have to
know so much. So Mr. Jennings helped me quite a lot and I stayed in his
office about a year when I found out that he was not the kind of a
gentleman that a young girl is safe with. I mean one evening when I
went to pay a call on him at his apartment, I found a girl there who
really was famous all over Little Rock for not being nice. So when I
found out that girls like that paid calls on Mr. Jennings I had quite a
bad case of histerics and my mind was really a blank and when I came
out of it, it seems that I had a revolver in my hand and it seems that
the revolver had shot Mr. Jennings.
So this gentleman on the boat was really the District Attorney who was
at the trial and he really was quite harsh at the trial and he called
me names that I would not even put in my diary. Because everyone at the
trial except the District Attorney was really lovely to me and all the
gentlemen in the jury all cried when my lawyer pointed at me and told
them that they practically all had had either a mother or a sister. So
the jury was only out three minutes and then they came back and
acquitted me and they were all so lovely that I really had to kiss all
of them and when I kissed the judge he had tears in his eyes and he
took me right home to his sister. I mean it was when Mr. Jennings
became shot that I got the idea to go into the cinema, so Judge Hibbard
got me a ticket to Hollywood. So it was Judge Hibbard who really gave
me my name because he did not like the name I had because he said a
girl ought to have a name that ought to express her personality. So he
said my name ought to be Lorelei which is the name of a girl who became
famous for sitting on a rock in Germany, So I was in Hollywood in the
cinema when I met Mr. Eisman and he said that a girl with my brains
ought not to be in the cinema but she ought to be educated, so he took
me out of the cinema so he could educate me.
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