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Irene Hayes (1896 – September 16, 1975 was a Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman who owned Irene Hayes Wadley & Smythe, a leading Manhattan florist and Gallagher's Steak House after the death of her husband Jack Solomon.

She bought the florist Wadley & Smythe on Park Avenue, adding her name, as no new businesses were allowed on Park Avenue at that time. "the right flowers do a lot of good and the wrong ones work mischief," she would often say. "I honestly believe that flowers, or rather the lack of them, have the power to change the map of the world.

"Do you think Nero would have burned Rome if he had been surrounded with the peace and gentleness of mimosa, lilies and acacia? I could mention any number of tyrants whose lives would have been less violent if only they had loved flowers."

A number of years after her husband's death in 1963 she sold Gallagher's to Jerome Brody. An active participant in the Manhattan social scene she was a good friend of the Nordstrom Sisters. Until her death in the 1970s she always had a table at the Ziegfeld Ball and lived in her Sutton Place apartment in Manhattan.

She died of an apparent heart ailment at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan.

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