March 22nd:
Well my birthday has come and gone but it was really quite depressing.
I mean it seems to me a gentleman who has a friendly interest in
educating a girl like Gus Eisman, would want her to have the biggest
square cut diamond in New York. I mean I must say I was quite
disappointed when he came to the apartment with a little thing you
could hardly see. So I told him I thought it was quite cute, but I had
quite a headache and I had better stay in a dark room all day and I
told him I would see him the next day, perhaps. Because even Lulu
thought it was quite small and she said, if she was I, she really would
do something definite and she said she always believed in the old
addage, “Leave them while you’re looking good.” But he came in at
dinner time with really a very very beautiful bracelet of square cut
diamonds so I was quite cheered up. So then we had dinner at the Colony
and we went to a show and supper at the Trocadero as usual whenever he
is in town. But I will give him credit that he realized how small it
was. I mean he kept talking about how bad business was and the button
profession was full of bolshevicks who make nothing but trouble.
Because Mr. Eisman feels that the country is really on the verge of the
bolshevicks and I become quite worried. I mean if the bolshevicks do
get in, there is only one gentleman who could handle them and that is
Mr. D. W. Griffith. Because I will never forget when Mr. Griffith was
directing Intolerance. I mean it was my last cinema just before Mr.
Eisman made me give up my career and I was playing one of the girls
that fainted at the battle when all of the gentlemen fell off the
tower. And when I saw how Mr. Griffith handled all of those mobs in
Intolerance I realized that he could do anything, and I really think
that the government of America ought to tell Mr. Griffith to get all
ready if the bolshevicks start to do it.

Well I forgot to mention that the English gentleman who writes novels
seems to have taken quite an interest in me, as soon as he found out
that I was literary. I mean he has called up every day and I went to
tea twice with him. So he has sent me a whole complete set of books for
my birthday by a gentleman called Mr. Conrad. They all seem to be about
ocean travel although I have not had time to more than glance through
them. I have always liked novels about ocean travel ever since I posed
for Mr. Christie for the front cover of a novel about ocean travel by
McGrath because I always say that a girl never really looks as well as

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