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A part-time job as a hat checker in a club helped to pay the bills while Burnett made the audition rounds in Manhattan. She lived at the famed Rehearsal Club, a hotel for aspiring actresses, and she quickly became popular enough there to be elected president of the club. Under BurnettÕs supervision, a number of young women in the club pooled their resources, rented a hall, and staged a revue for all the agents and theater reviewers they could cajole into coming. BurnettÕs contribution to the revue was a spoof of Eartha KittÕs sexy ÒMonotonous,Ó performed in ragged bathrobe and curlers. The performance won her an agent who secured her employment in summer stock and in nightclubs.

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