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IRENE M. Gozzi Amherst, Mass.
When Irene was 22, Mike Todd hired her for Star and Garter, fired her before the show was six weeks old. After that, says Irene, "I kinda had a nervous breakdown for five years."
She served enough coffee to keep Rip van Winkle awake and nervous till the end of time. Working Riker's, Cord's and other short-order, all-night stands in Manhattan, she was a competent waitress, but often she served people with her face turned aside. Once when...
Last week, Broadway actors in and out of employment were remembering Irene, whose scarred and overscarred acting career, after more than 30 futile years, had finally burst into flame in a foreign city. Giving a memorable performance in a new London play called Tomorrow-With Pictures, she is identified as...
Vaudeville & Lampshades. Her voice today sounds like gravel dripping onto a kettledrum; her teeth have been capped four times; her tall, big-boned frame suggests the rambling form of her older brother, Dan Dailey. Their late father, manager of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, had some objections to Irene'...