The Lavander Room

I danced with all the whole three of them one at a time. The ugly one Laverne, wasn’t too bad a dancer, but the other one, old Marty was like dragging the statue of Liberty around the floor. The only way I could even half enjoy myself dragging her around was if I amused myself a little. So I told her I just saw Gary Cooper, the movie star, on the other said of the floor. She practically stopped dancing, and started looking over everybody’s heads to see if she could see him. They all got exited and asked Marty if she’d seen him and all. Old Mart said she’d only caught a glimpse of him. That killed me. The bar was closing so I bought them all two drinks a piece. The goddam table was lousy with glasses. The whole tree of them kept looking for the movie stars the whole time. Then they had to go they said they had to get up early to see the first show at radio city music hall. I left the lavender room pretty soon after they did.