"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 we went back to the Ritz and unpacked our trunks with the aid
of really a delightful waiter who brought us up some delicious luncheon
and who is called Leon and who speaks english almost like an American
and who Dorothy and I talk to quite a lot. So Leon said that we ought
not to stay around the Ritz all of the time, but we really ought to see
Paris. So Dorothy said she would go down in the lobby and meet some
gentleman to show us Paris. So in a couple of minutes she called up on
the telephone from the lobby and she said “I have got a French bird
down here who is a French title nobleman, who is called a veecount so
come on down.” So I said “How did a Frenchman get into the Ritz.” So
Dorothy said “He came in to get out of the rain and he has not noticed
that it is stopped.” So I said “I suppose you have picked up something
without taxi fare as usual. Why did you not get an American gentleman
who always have money?” So Dorothy said she thought a French gentleman
had ought to know Paris better. So I said “He does not even know it is
not raining.” But I went down.
So the veecount was really delightful after all. So then we rode around
and we saw Paris and we saw how devine it really is. I mean the Eyefull
Tower is devine and it is much more educational than the London Tower,
because you can not even see the London Tower if you happen to be two
blocks away. But when a girl looks at the Eyefull Tower she really
knows she is looking at something. And it would even be very difficult
not to notice the Eyefull Tower.
So then we went to a place called the Madrid to tea and it really was
devine. I mean we saw the Dolley Sisters and Pearl White and Mrs. Corey
and Mrs. Nash all over again.
So then we went to dinner and then we went to Momart and it really was
devine because we saw them all over again. I mean in Momart they have
genuine American jazz bands and quite a lot of New York people which we
knew and you really would think you were in New York and it was devine.
So we came back to the Ritz quite late. So Dorothy and I had quite a
little quarrel because Dorothy said that when we were looking at Paris
I asked the French veecount what was the name of the unknown soldier
who is buried under quite a large monument. So I said I really did not
mean to ask him, if I did, because what I did mean to ask him was, what
was the name of his mother because it is always the mother of a dead
soldier that I always seem to think about more than the dead soldier
that has died.
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