"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 I told Mr. Montrose that it made me feel very very small to talk to
a gentleman like he, who knew so much about Bulgaria, because
practically all I knew about Bulgaria was Zoolack. So Mr. Montrose said
that the Bulgarian Ambassadore did not seem to think that Dolly Madison
had so much about her that was pertinent to present day Bulgaria, but
Mr. Montrose explained to him that that was because he knew practically
nothing about dramatic construction. Because Mr. Montrose said he could
fix his senario so that Dolly Madison would have one lover who was a
Bulgarian, who wanted to marry her. So then Dolly Madison would get to
wondering what her great, great grandchildren would be like if she
married a Bulgarian, and then she could sit down and have a vision of
Bulgaria in 1925. So that was when Mr. Montrose would take a trip to
Bulgaria to photograph the vision. But the Bulgarian Ambassadore turned
down the whole proposition, but he gave Mr. Montrose quite a large size
bottle of the Bulgarian national drink. So the Bulgarian national drink
looks like nothing so much as water, and it really does not taste so
strong, but about five minutes afterwards you begin to realise your
mistake. But I thought to myself that if realizing my mistake could
make me forget what I went through in Pennsylvania, I really owed it to
myself to forget everything. So then we had another drink.
So then Mr. Montrose told me that he had quite a hard time getting
along in the motion picture profession, because all of his senarios are
all over their head. Because when Mr. Montrose writes about sex, it is
full of sychology, but when everybody else writes about it, it is full
of nothing but transparent negligays and ornamental bath tubs. And Mr.
Montrose says that there is no future in the motion pictures until the
motion pictures get their sex motives straightened out, and realize
that a woman of 25 can have just as many sex problems as a flapper of
16. Because Mr. Montrose likes to write about women of the world, and
he refuses to have women of the world played by small size girls of 15
who know nothing about life and who have not even been in the detention
home.
So we both arrived in New York before we realized it, and I got to
thinking how the same trip with Henry in his Rolls Royce seemed like
about 24 hours, and that was what gave me the idea that money was not
everything, because after all, it is only brains that count. So Mr.
Montrose took me home and we are going to have luncheon together at the
Primrose Tea room practically every day and keep right on holding
literary conversations.
So then I had to figure out how to get rid of Henry and at the same
time not do anything that would make me any trouble later. So I sent
for Dorothy because Dorothy is not so good at intreeging a gentleman
with money, but she ought to be full of ideas on how to get rid of one.
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