"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
I mean Mr. Eisman is in the wholesale button profession in Chicago and
he is the gentleman who is known practically all over Chicago as Gus
Eisman the Button King. And he is the gentleman who is interested in
educating me, so of course he is always coming down to New York to see
how my brains have improved since the last time. But when Mr. Eisman is
in New York we always seem to do the same thing and if I wrote down one
day in my diary, all I would have to do would be to put quotation marks
for all other days. I mean we always seem to have dinner at the Colony
and see a show and go to the Trocadero and then Mr. Eisman shows me to
my apartment. So of course when a gentleman is interested in educating
a girl, he likes to stay and talk about the topics of the day until
quite late, so I am quite fatigued the next day and I do not really get
up until it is time to dress for dinner at the Colony.
It would be strange if I turn out to be an authoress. I mean at my home
near Little Rock, Arkansas, my family all wanted me to do something
about my music. Because all of my friends said I had talent and they
all kept after me and kept after me about practising. But some way I
never seemed to care so much about practising. I mean I simply could
not sit for hours and hours at a time practising just for the sake of a
career. So one day I got quite tempermental and threw the old mandolin
clear across the room and I have really never touched it since. But
writing is different because you do not have to learn or practise and
it is more tempermental because practising seems to take all the
temperment out of me. So now I really almost have to smile because I
have just noticed that I have written clear across two pages onto March
18th, so this will do for today and tomorrow. And it just shows how
tempermental I am when I get started.
March 19th:
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