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But I sometimes almost have to smile at my own imagination, because of course I have not got any brother and I have not even thought of the mumps for years. I mean it is no wonder that I can write.
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Because of course if I went to the Ritz now I would bump into Coocoo.
But I sometimes almost have to smile at my own imagination, because of course I have not got any brother and I have not even thought of the mumps for years. I mean it is no wonder that I can write.
So the reason I thought I would take luncheon at the Ritz was because Mr. Chaplin is at the Ritz and I always like to renew old acquaintances, because I met Mr.
I mean I always love a ship and I really love the Majestic because you would not know it was a ship because it is just like being at the Ritz
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Well Dorothy and I are really on the ship sailing to Europe as anyone could tell by looking at the ocean. I always love the ocean.
I mean I always love a ship and I really love the Majestic because you would not know it was a ship because it is just like being at the Ritz
, and the steward says the ocean is not so obnoxious this month as it generally is. So Mr. Eisman is going to meet us next month in Paris because he has to be there on business.
I mean a gentleman never pays for those things but a girl always pays.
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So Major Falcon is going to come down at 12 and I have got to thinking over what Mr. Bartlett called me at Little Rock and I am quite upset.
I mean a gentleman never pays for those things but a girl always pays.
So I think I will tell Major Falcon all about the airoplane business as he really wants to know. And, after all I do not think Mr.
In London they make a very, very great fuss over nothing at all. I mean London is really nothing at all.
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So Major Falcon drives his own car so Dorothy sat with him and I sat with Sir Francis Beekman but I told him that I was not going to call him Sir Francis Beekman but I was really going to call him Piggie.
In London they make a very, very great fuss over nothing at all. I mean London is really nothing at all.
For instants, they make a great fuss over a tower that really is not even as tall as the Hickox building in Little Rock Arkansas and it would only make a chimney on one of our towers in New York.
Because I always think that spending money is only just a habit and if you get a gentleman started on buying one dozen orchids at a time he really gets very good habits.
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So by the time Piggie pays for a few dozen orchids, the diamond tiara will really seem like quite a bargain.
Because I always think that spending money is only just a habit and if you get a gentleman started on buying one dozen orchids at a time he really gets very good habits.
Well, yesterday afternoon I took Piggie shopping on a street called Bond Street.
But I always think that when girls are in the nude it is very artistic and if you have artistic thoughts you think it is beautiful
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So Dorothy said, “She is slipping it over on you Louie, because how could a girl get such dirty knees in only 18 years?” So Louie and Robber really laughed very very loud. I mean Dorothy was very unrefined at the Foley Bergere.
But I always think that when girls are in the nude it is very artistic and if you have artistic thoughts you think it is beautiful
and I really would not laugh in an artistic place like the Foley Bergere.
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I: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
So here I am writing a book instead of reading one.
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But when I opened it and saw that it was all a blank I remembered what my gentleman acquaintance said, and so then I realized that it was a diary.
So here I am writing a book instead of reading one.
But now it is the 16th of March and of course it is to late to begin with January, but it does not matter as my gentleman friend, Mr.
But I sometimes almost have to smile at my own imagination, because of course I have not got any brother and I have not even thought of the mumps for years. I mean it is no wonder that I can write.
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Because of course if I went to the Ritz now I would bump into Coocoo.
But I sometimes almost have to smile at my own imagination, because of course I have not got any brother and I have not even thought of the mumps for years. I mean it is no wonder that I can write.
So the reason I thought I would take luncheon at the Ritz was because Mr. Chaplin is at the Ritz and I always like to renew old acquaintances, because I met Mr.
Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.
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Chaplin is at the Ritz and I always like to renew old acquaintances, because I met Mr. Chaplin once when we were both working on the same lot in Hollywood and I am sure he would remember me.
Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes.
I mean the only career I would like to be besides an authoress is a cinema star and I was doing quite well in the cinema when Mr. Eisman made me give it all up.
II: Fate Keeps on Happening
I mean I always love a ship and I really love the Majestic because you would not know it was a ship because it is just like being at the Ritz
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Well Dorothy and I are really on the ship sailing to Europe as anyone could tell by looking at the ocean. I always love the ocean.
I mean I always love a ship and I really love the Majestic because you would not know it was a ship because it is just like being at the Ritz
, and the steward says the ocean is not so obnoxious this month as it generally is. So Mr. Eisman is going to meet us next month in Paris because he has to be there on business.
I mean a gentleman never pays for those things but a girl always pays.
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So Major Falcon is going to come down at 12 and I have got to thinking over what Mr. Bartlett called me at Little Rock and I am quite upset.
I mean a gentleman never pays for those things but a girl always pays.
So I think I will tell Major Falcon all about the airoplane business as he really wants to know. And, after all I do not think Mr.
III: London Is Really Nothing
I mean Fanny is almost historical, because when a girl is cute for 50 years it really begins to get historical.
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So now Fanny lives in London and is famous for being one of the cutest girls in London.
I mean Fanny is almost historical, because when a girl is cute for 50 years it really begins to get historical.
So if mama did not die of hardening of the arterys she and Fanny and I could have quite a delightful time in London as Fanny loves to shop.
In London they make a very, very great fuss over nothing at all. I mean London is really nothing at all.
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So Major Falcon drives his own car so Dorothy sat with him and I sat with Sir Francis Beekman but I told him that I was not going to call him Sir Francis Beekman but I was really going to call him Piggie.
In London they make a very, very great fuss over nothing at all. I mean London is really nothing at all.
For instants, they make a great fuss over a tower that really is not even as tall as the Hickox building in Little Rock Arkansas and it would only make a chimney on one of our towers in New York.
Dorothy said “What a fool she was to get up that morning” and that is really the only sensible thing that Dorothy has said in London.
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So Sir Francis Beekman wanted us to get out and look at the tower because he said that quite a famous Queen had her head cut off there one morning and
Dorothy said “What a fool she was to get up that morning” and that is really the only sensible thing that Dorothy has said in London.
So we did not bother to get out.
I mean you can always tell when to laugh because Piggie always laughs first.
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So then Piggie laughed very, very loud. So of course I laughed very, very loud and I told Piggie he was wonderful the way he could tell jokes.
I mean you can always tell when to laugh because Piggie always laughs first.
So in the afternoon a lot of lady friends of Mrs.
Because I always think that spending money is only just a habit and if you get a gentleman started on buying one dozen orchids at a time he really gets very good habits.
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So by the time Piggie pays for a few dozen orchids, the diamond tiara will really seem like quite a bargain.
Because I always think that spending money is only just a habit and if you get a gentleman started on buying one dozen orchids at a time he really gets very good habits.
Well, yesterday afternoon I took Piggie shopping on a street called Bond Street.
I mean 50 or 60 orchids really make a girl think of a funeral.
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So Piggy does not know that we have gone but I sent him a letter and told him I would see him some time again some time. And I was really glad to get out of our rooms at the Ritz—
I mean 50 or 60 orchids really make a girl think of a funeral.
So I cabled Mr. Eisman and I told him we could not learn anything in London because we knew to much, so if we went to Paris at least we could learn French, if we made up our mind to it.
IV: Paris Is Devine
Paris is devine. I mean Dorothy and I got to Paris yesterday, and it really is devine.
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Paris is devine. I mean Dorothy and I got to Paris yesterday, and it really is devine.
Because the French are devine. Because when we were coming off the boat, and we were coming through the customs, it was quite hot and it seemed to smell quite a lot and all the French gentlemen in the customs, were squealing quite a lot.
Because when a girl looks at Mrs. Nash and realizes what Mrs. Nash has got out of gentlemen, it really makes a girl hold her breath.
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I mean when a girl can sit there and look at the Dolly sisters and Pearl White and Maybelle Gilman Corey, and Mrs. Nash, it is beyond worlds.
Because when a girl looks at Mrs. Nash and realizes what Mrs. Nash has got out of gentlemen, it really makes a girl hold her breath.
And when a girl walks around and reads all of the signs with all of the famous historical names it really makes you hold your breath.
So Dorothy said “paste” is the name of the word a girl ought to do to a gentleman that handed her one.
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So we went in and asked and it seems it was only 20 dollars and it seems it is not diamonds but it is a thing called “paste” which is the name of a word which means imitations.
So Dorothy said “paste” is the name of the word a girl ought to do to a gentleman that handed her one.
I mean I would really be embarrassed, but the gentleman did not seem to understand Dorothy’s english.
“Lady you could no more ruin my girl friends reputation than you could sink the Jewish fleet.”
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Because it seems that Sir Francis Beekman and she have been married for 35 years and the last present he gave to her was a wedding ring. So Dorothy spoke up and she said
“Lady you could no more ruin my girl friends reputation than you could sink the Jewish fleet.”
I mean I was quite proud of Dorothy the way she stood up for my reputation. Because I really think that there is nothing so wonderful as two girls when they stand up for each other and help each other a lot.
“Take a tuck in that skirt Isabel, its 1925.”
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So when she went out she tripped over quite a long train which she had on her skirt and she nearly fell down. So Dorothy leaned out of the door and Dorothy called down the hall and said,
“Take a tuck in that skirt Isabel, its 1925.”
So I really felt quite depressed because I felt as if our whole morning was really very unrefined just because we had to mix with such an unrefined lady as Lady Francis Beekman.
“If he cries when he thinks about her, what does he do when he looks at her?”
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So then we asked his son why his papa kept crying. So then his son said his papa kept crying because he was thinking about Lady Francis Beekman. So Dorothy said,
“If he cries when he thinks about her, what does he do when he looks at her?”
So then his son explained to his papa what Dorothy said. So then Mons. Broussard laughed very very loud, so then he kissed Dorothy’s hand, so he said, after that, we would all really have to have a bottle of champagne.
“Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.”
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So Dorothy said we might as well go out to Fountainblo with Louie and Robber if Louie would take off his yellow spats that were made out of yellow shammy skin with pink pearl buttons. Because Dorothy said,
“Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.”
So Louie is really always anxious to please, so he took off his spats but when he took off his spats, we saw his socks and when we saw his socks we saw that they were Scotch plaid with small size rainbows running through them.
I mean she said my brains reminded her of a radio because you listen to it for days and days and you get discouradged and just when you are getting ready to smash it, something comes out that is a masterpiece.
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So when I got through telling Dorothy what I thought up, Dorothy looked at me and looked at me and she really said she thought my brains were a miracle.
I mean she said my brains reminded her of a radio because you listen to it for days and days and you get discouradged and just when you are getting ready to smash it, something comes out that is a masterpiece.
So then Louie called us up so Dorothy told him that we thought it would be delightful if he and Robber would take us out shopping tomorrow morning. So then Louie asked his papa and his papa said they would.
But I always think that when girls are in the nude it is very artistic and if you have artistic thoughts you think it is beautiful
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So Dorothy said, “She is slipping it over on you Louie, because how could a girl get such dirty knees in only 18 years?” So Louie and Robber really laughed very very loud. I mean Dorothy was very unrefined at the Foley Bergere.
But I always think that when girls are in the nude it is very artistic and if you have artistic thoughts you think it is beautiful
and I really would not laugh in an artistic place like the Foley Bergere.
V: The Central of Europe
Because Mr. Spoffard is a very very famous Prespyterian and he is really much to Prespyterian to meet Peggy Hopkins Joyce.
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Spoffard and Mr. Spoffard turned on his heels and walked away.
Because Mr. Spoffard is a very very famous Prespyterian and he is really much to Prespyterian to meet Peggy Hopkins Joyce.
I mean it is unusual to see a gentleman who is such a young gentleman as Mr. Spoffard be so Prespyterian, because when most gentlemen are 35 years of age their minds nearly always seem to be on something else.
“You can say what you want about the Germans being full of ‘kunst,’ but what they are really full of is delicatessen.”
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But Mr. Spoffard seemed to think that the lobby of the Kunst theatre did not smell any worse than all of the other places in Munich. So then Dorothy spoke up and Dorothy said
“You can say what you want about the Germans being full of ‘kunst,’ but what they are really full of is delicatessen.”
So then we went into the Kunst theater. But the Kunst theater does not seem to smell so good as the lobby of the Kunst theater.
“If Schuman Heinke still has a grandmother, we have dug her up in Munchen.”
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So finally she came out. I mean we knew it was her because Dorothy’s German gentleman friend nudged Dorothy with a sausage. So we looked at her, and we looked at her and Dorothy said,
“If Schuman Heinke still has a grandmother, we have dug her up in Munchen.”
So we did not bother to see any more of Kiki because Dorothy said she would really have to know more about the foundations of that building before she would risk our lives to see Kiki do that famous scene where she faints in the …
Because when something terrible happens to me, I always try to be a Christian science and I simply do not even think about it, but I deny that it ever happened even if my feet do seem to hurt quite a lot.
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I mean Mr. Spoffard and I spent one whole day going through all of the museums in Munchen, but I am really not even going to think about it.
Because when something terrible happens to me, I always try to be a Christian science and I simply do not even think about it, but I deny that it ever happened even if my feet do seem to hurt quite a lot.
So even Dorothy had quite a hard day in Munchen because her German gentleman friend, who is called Rudolf, came for her at 11 o’clock to take her to breakfast. But Dorothy told him that she had had her breakfast.
I mean I use my brains so much in the day time that at night they do not seem to do anything else but rest.
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So then you dream about it instead. So Dr. Froyd asked me, what I seemed to dream about. So I told him that I never really dream about anything.
I mean I use my brains so much in the day time that at night they do not seem to do anything else but rest.
So Dr. Froyd was very very surprized at a girl who did not dream about anything. So then he asked me all about my life.
I mean it is quite an easy thing to pretend not to see one gentleman, but it is a quite hard thing to pretend not to see two gentlemen.
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Things are really getting to be quite a strain. Because yesterday Mr. Spoffard and Mr. Eisman were both in the lobby of the Bristol hotel and I had to pretend not to see both of them.
I mean it is quite an easy thing to pretend not to see one gentleman, but it is a quite hard thing to pretend not to see two gentlemen.
So something has really got to happen soon, or I will have to admit that things seem to be happening that are not for the best.
Because I always seem to believe in the old addage, Say it in writing.
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So I told him to write down what he had to say to me, and mail it to me at the Ritz hotel in Buda Pest.
Because I always seem to believe in the old addage, Say it in writing.
So it was really very easy to get Mr.
VI: Brains Are Really Everything
And, after all, why should I listen to the advise of a girl like Dorothy who travelled all over Europe and all she came home with was a bangle!
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But I do not think I ought to take Dorothy’s advise because Henry’s father is watched like a hawk and Henry himself is his Power of Attorney, so no good could really come of it after all.
And, after all, why should I listen to the advise of a girl like Dorothy who travelled all over Europe and all she came home with was a bangle!
So Henry spent the evening at the apartment and then he had to go back to Pennsylvania to be there Thursday morning, because every Thursday morning he belongs to a society who do nothing but senshure all of the photoplays.
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.
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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.
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 …
Henry’s father took one good look at me and got right out of his wheel chair and walked!
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So his male nurse wheeled him into the dining room in his wheel chair and then Henry said “Father, this is going to be your little daughter in law,” and
Henry’s father took one good look at me and got right out of his wheel chair and walked!
So then everybody was very very surprised, but Henry was not so surprised because Henry knows his father like a book.
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