BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara

Author:John O'Hara [O'Hara, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Literary
ISBN: 9780812966985
Google: RoynAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0812966988
Goodreads: 49715
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1934-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

. That’s enough of that. Oh, here is sad news. Clayton, Jackson and Durante are splitting up. Schnozzle is going to Hollywood and they’re breaking up. Oh, that’s sad. That’s the world’s worst. Why did you have to show me this paper? No more wood number? No more hats? No more telegrams like the one he sent: ‘Opening at Les Ambassadeurs as soon as I learn how to pronounce it.’ Ah. That makes me sad, really sad. I hope he divides his salary with the others. Do you like this hat? On the right hand page. . . . On me.”

“No. It hides the eyes.”

“All right. I must go home to the bosom of my family. A flat chest if I ever saw one. Shall I call you tomorrow?”

“Yes. Oh, how about that fur coat?”

“I don’t know. I’ll call you tomorrow.”

“Well, aren’t you going to give it back to this fellow?”

“Well, I can’t just take the coat to him, can I?”

“I don’t see why not,” said Eddie. “If you want to return the coat, you can. The way you do it is up to you.”

“All right, I will then, if it’ll make you feel any better. I’ll call him up right now.” She telephoned Liggett. “He’s out of town, his office said.”

“Well, phone him tomorrow.”

She went home and there was a telegram there from Liggett, asking her to meet him at their favorite speakeasy at four. They had told her at his office that he was out of town, but her life was full of inconsistencies like that.

She was there before four, and took a small table by herself and watched the world come in. That afternoon the speakeasy was visited by a fairly representative crowd. On their lips soon would be her name, with varying opinions as to her character. Most of these people were famous in a way, although in most cases their fame did not extend more than twenty blocks to the north, forty blocks to the south, seven blocks to the east and four blocks to the west. There were others who were not famous, but were prominent in Harrisburg, Denver, Albany, Nashville, St. Paul-Minneapolis, Atlanta, Houston, Portland, Me., Dayton and Hartford. Among these was Mrs. Dunbar Vicks, of Cleveland, in town on one of her three or four visits a year to see a friend’s private collection of dirty movies and to go to bed with a young man who formerly worked for Finchley. Mrs. Vicks was standing at the bar, with her back to Walter R. Loskind, the Hollywood supervisor, who was talking to Percy Luffberry, the director. Percy owed a great deal to Walter. When Percy was directing “War of Wars” he had small charges of explosive buried here and there in the ground, not enough to hurt anyone, but enough so that when the charge was set off the extras in German uniforms would be lifted off the ground. The extras had been warned about that and were being paid a bonus for this realism.

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