"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
In London they make a very, very great fuss over nothing at all. I mean
London is really nothing at all. For instants, they make a great fuss
over a tower that really is not even as tall as the Hickox building in
Little Rock Arkansas and it would only make a chimney on one of our
towers in New York. So Sir Francis Beekman wanted us to get out and
look at the tower because he said that quite a famous Queen had her
head cut off there one morning and Dorothy said “What a fool she was to
get up that morning” and that is really the only sensible thing that
Dorothy has said in London. So we did not bother to get out.
So we did not go to any more sights because they really have delicious
champagne cocktails at a very very smart new restaurant called the Cafe
de Paris that you could not get in New York for neither love or money
and I told Piggie that when you are travelling you really ought to take
advantadges of what you can not do at home.
So while Dorothy and I were in the Cafe de Paris powdering our nose in
the lady’s dressing room we met an American girl who Dorothy knew in
the Follies, but now she is living in London. So she told us all about
London. So it seems the gentlemen in London have quite a quaint custom
of not giving a girl many presents. I mean the English girls really
seem to be satisfied with a gold cigaret holder or else what they call
a ‘bangle’ which means a bracelet in English which is only gold and
does not have any stones in it which American girls would really give
to their maid. So she said you could tell what English gentlemen were
like when you realize that not even English ladys could get anything
out of them. So she said Sir Francis Beekman was really famous all over
London for not spending so much money as most English gentlemen. So
then Dorothy and I said goodbye to Dorothy’s girl friend and Dorothy
said, “Lets tell our two boy friends that we have a headache and go
back to the Ritz, where men are Americans.” Because Dorothy said that
the society of a gentleman like Sir Francis Beekman was to great a
price to pay for a couple of rounds of champagne cocktails. But I told
Dorothy that I always believe that there is nothing like trying and I
think it would be nice for an American girl like I to educate an
English gentleman like Piggie, as I call Sir Francis Beekman.
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