"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 Dorothy came over and we planned my debut. So first we decided to
have some engraved invitations engraved, but it always takes quite a
little time to have invitations engraved, and it would really be
foolish because all of the gentlemen we were going to invite to my
debut were all members of the Racquet Club, so I could just write out a
notice that I was having a debut and give it to Willie Gwynn and have
Willie Gwynn post it on the Racquet Club board.
So Willie Gwynn posted it on the club board and then he called me up
and he told me that he had never seen so much enthusiasm since the
Dempsey-Firpo fight, and he said that the whole Racquet Club would be
there in a body. So then we had to plan about what girls we would ask
to my debut. Because I have not seemed to meet so many society women
yet because of course a girl does not meet society women until her
debut is all over, and then all the society women all come and call on
a debutant. But I know practically all of the society men, because
practically all of the society men belong to the Racquet club, so after
I have the Racquet Club at my debut, all I have to do to take my real
place in society is to meet their mothers and sisters, because I know
practically all of their sweethearts now.
But I always seem to think that it is delightful to have quite a lot of
girls at a party, if a girl has quite a lot of gentlemen at a party,
and it is quite delightful to have all the girls from the Follies, but
I really could not invite them because, after all, they are not in my
set. So then I thought it all over and I thought that even if it was
not etiquette to invite them to a party, it really would be etiquette
to hire them to come to a party and be entertainers, and after they
were entertainers they could mix in to the party and it really would
not be a social error.
So then the telephone rang and Dorothy answered it and it seems that it
was Joe Sanguinetti, who is almost the official bootlegger for the
whole Racquet Club, and Joe said he had heard about my debut and if he
could come to my debut and bring his club which is the Silver Spray
Social Club of Brooklyn, he would supply all of the liquor and he would
guarantee to practically run the rum fleet up to the front door.
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