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Loos, Anita
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So then I went through the train, and there was Henry with a look on
his face which I shall never forget. So when he saw me he really seemed
to shrink to ½ his natural size. So I sat down beside him and I told
him that I was really ashamed of how he acted, and if his love for me
could not stand a little test that I and Dorothy had thought up, more
in the spirit of fun than anything else, I never wanted to speak to
such a gentleman again. And I told him that if he could not tell the
difference between a real square cut emerald and one from the ten cent
store, that he had ought to be ashamed of himself. And I told him that
if he thought that every string of white beads were pearls, it was no
wonder he could make such a mistake in judging the character of a girl.
So then I began to cry because of all of Henry’s lack of faith. So then
he tried to cheer me up but I was to hurt to even give him a decent
word until we were past Newark. But by the time we were past Newark,
Henry was crying himself, and it always makes me feel so tender hearted
to listen to a gentleman cry that I finally forgave him. So, of course,
as soon as I got home I had to take them back to Cartiers.
So then I explained to Henry how I wanted our life to mean something
and I wanted to make the World a better place than it seemed to have
been yet. And I told him that he knew so much about the film profession
on account of senshuring all of the films that I thought he had ought
to go into the film profession. Because I told him that a gentleman
like he really owed it to the world to make pure films so that he could
be an example to all of the other film corporations and show the world
what pure films were like. So Henry became very, very intreeged because
he had never thought of the film profession before. So then I told him
that we could get H. Gilbertson Montrose to write the senarios, and he
to senshure them, and I could act in them and by the time we all got
through, they would be a work of art. But they would even be purer than
most works of art seem to be. So by the time we got to Philadelphia
Henry said that he would do it, but he really did not think I had ought
to act in them. But I told him from what I had seen of society women
trying to break into the films, I did not believe that it would be so
declasée if one of them really landed. So I even talked him into that.
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