"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 told him he could come, and she hung up the telephone before
she told me his proposition, and I became quite angry with Dorothy
because, after all, the Silver Spray Social Club is not even mentioned
in the Social Register and it has no place at a girl’s debut. But
Dorothy said by the time the party got into swing, anyone would have to
be a genius if he could tell whether he belonged to the Racquet Club,
the Silver Spray Social Club, or the Knights of Pythias. But I really
was almost sorry that I asked Dorothy to help plan my debut, except
that Dorothy is very good to have at a party if the police come in,
because Dorothy always knows how to manage the police, and I never knew
a policeman yet who did not finish up by being madly in love with
Dorothy. So then Dorothy called up all of the reporters on all of the
newspapers and invited them all to my debut, so they could see it with
their own eyes.
So Dorothy says that she is going to see to it that my debut lands on
the front page of all of the newspapers, if we have to commit a murder
to do it.
June 19th:
Well, it has been three days since my debut party started but I finally
got tired and left the party last night and went to bed because I
always seem to lose all of my interest in a party after a few days, but
Dorothy never loses her interest in a party and when I woke up this
morning Dorothy was just saying goodbye to some of the guests. I mean
Dorothy seems to have quite a lot of vitality, because the last guests
of the party were guests we picked up when the party went to take a
swim at Long Beach the day before yesterday, and they were practically
fresh, but Dorothy had gone clear through the party from beginning to
end without even stopping to go to a Turkish bath as most of the
gentlemen had to do. So my debut has really been very novel, because
quite a lot of the guests who finished up at my debut were not the same
guests that started out at it, and it is really quite novel for a girl
to have so many different kinds of gentlemen at her debut. So it has
really been a very great success because all of the newspapers have
quite a lot of write-ups about my debut and I really felt quite proud
when I saw the front page of the Daily Views and it said in large size
headlines, “LORELEI’S DEBUT A WOW!” And Zits’ Weekly came right out and
said that if this party marks my entrance into society, they only hope
that they can live to see what I will spring once I have overcome my
debutant reserve and taken my place in the world.
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