"Gentlemen prefer blondes" : $b The illuminating diary of a professional lady — John Shaqi
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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 I told Major Falcon that having a friendship with Mr. Barlett was
really quite enervating because Mr. Bartlett does not drink anything
and the less anybody says about his dancing the better. But he did ask
me to dine at his table, which is not in the Ritz and I told him I
could not, but Major Falcon told me I ought to, but I told Major Falcon
that there was a limit to almost everything. So I am going to stay in
my room until luncheon and I am going to luncheon in the Ritz with Mr.
Mountginz who really knows how to treat a girl.
Dorothy is up on the deck wasting quite a lot of time with a gentleman
who is only a tennis champion. So I am going to ring for the steward
and have some champagne which is quite good for a person on a boat. The
steward is really quite a nice boy and he has had quite a sad life and
he likes to tell me all about himself. I mean it seems that he was
arrested in Flatbush because he promised a gentleman that he would
bring him some very very good scotch and they mistook him for a
bootlegger. So it seems they put him in a prison and they put him in a
cell with two other gentlemen who were very, very famous burglars. I
mean they really had their pictures in all the newspapers and everybody
was talking about them. So my steward, whose real name is Fred, was
very very proud to be in the same cell with such famous burglars. So
when they asked him what he was in for, he did not like to tell them
that he was only a bootlegger, so he told them that he set fire to a
house and burned up quite a large family in Oklahoma. So everything
would have gone alright except that the police had put a dictaphone in
the cell and used it all against him and he could not get out until
they had investigated all the fires in Oklahoma. So I always think that
it is much more educational to talk to a boy like Fred who has been
through a lot and really suffered than it is to talk to a gentleman
like Mr. Bartlett. But I will have to talk to Mr. Bartlett all
afternoon as Major Falcon has made an appointment for me to spend the
whole afternoon with him.
April 15th:
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