"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 Mr. Montrose and I had a delicious luncheon, except that I never
seem to notice what I am eating when I am with Mr. Montrose because
when Mr. Montrose talks a girl wants to do nothing but listen. But all
of the time I was listening, I was thinking about Dorothy and I was
worrying for fear Dorothy would go to far, and tell Henry something
that would not be so good for me afterwards. So finally even Mr.
Montrose seemed to notice it, and he said “What’s the matter little
woman, a penny for your thoughts.”
So then I told him everything. So he seemed to think quite a lot and
finally he said to me “It is really to bad that you feel as if the
social life of Mr. Spoffard bored you, because Mr. Spoffard would be
ideal to finance my senario.” So then Mr. Montrose said that he had
been thinking from the very first how ideal I would be to play Dolly
Madison. So that started me thinking and I told Mr. Montrose that I
expected to have quite a large size ammount of money later on, and I
would finance it myself. But Mr. Montrose said that would be to late,
because all of the motion picture corporations were after it now, and
it would be snaped up almost immediately.
So then I became almost in a panick, because I suddenly decided that if
I married Henry and worked in the motion pictures at the same time,
society life with Henry would not really be so bad. Because if a girl
was so busy as all that, it really would not seem to matter so much if
she had to stand Henry when she was not busy. But then I realized what
Dorothy was up to, and I told Mr. Montrose that I was almost afraid it
was to late. So I hurried to the telephone and I called up Dorothy at
the apartment and I asked her what she had said to Henry. So Dorothy
said that she showed him the square cut emerald and told him that I
bought it as a knick-knack to go with a green dress, but I had got a
spot on the dress, so I was going to give them both to Lulu. So she
said she showed him the pearls and she said that after I had bought
them, I was sorry I did not get pink ones because white ones were so
common, so I was going to have Lulu unstring them and sew them on a
negligay. So then she told him she was rather sorry I meant to buy the
Russian Crown jewels because she had a feeling they were unlucky, but
that I had said to her, that if I found out they were, I could toss
them over my left shoulder into the Hudson river some night when there
was a new moon, and it would take away the curse.
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