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...newcomer's name is Irma Potts. Fanny describes her: "If we could record what we say all day long, and it was played back to us at night, we'd hate ourselves. We mean 10% of what we say. Irma is different. She says 100% what she thinks and is always in trouble...
...Irma's debut was promising, if not exactly auspicious. A trustful shopgirl with a protruding lower lip and a slight lisp, her first mistake was leaving her boss's drug store untended while she rushed off to help a man who had been kicked by a horse. In her absence someone rifled the cash register. Equally unfortunate were her attempts to find a nice young man to go out with...
...Irma: "The only reason I ask is 'cause I'm a total stranger in town. Not that I would mind meeting some nice young feller to go out with. Separate checks, of course...
...Irma: "Do you think...
...Listen, Kid!" Irma has been rattling around in Fanny Brice's brain ever since she was Fanny Borach of Forsyth Street, daughter of a saloonkeeper. She had risen to singing dialect songs in the Columbia Burlesque when Florenz Ziegfeld, who knew a good thing, hired her for his Follies. Once, asked about her career, she roared...