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Show Zoe Barnett's Got ao ImM It is r lie Imp who makes her dance liko a flying leaf in a summer whirlwind. whirl-wind. It is Sir Imp who bundles her out of a sick bed into a cab and down to tho stimulating excitement of a performance. It is His Implets who warns her to refuse wine suppers from gilded gentlemen for a simple glass of milk in the seclusion of her own room. Mr. Imp is also a press agent, and wlion his mistress is on the stago ho whispers whis-pers in your car and inveigles you to confess that she is tho most utterly bewitching of magnetized soubrottcs. Z. B. Imp, Esq., even gives hor a touch of mysticism which translates many a jarring moment into ti transcendental trans-cendental experience. , Psychologists, who aro supposed to know everything about the human mind, would dismiss Tho Imp as the various phases of a very pronounced will, but. those who have soon the firm yet frisky little crcaturo nt her work would call her something more than that. Of course, no ono has evor aCtunlly soon her with bodily eyes, but she has a distinct individuality which may be traced liko a life line in the. palm of one's hand. In the olden days they used to say that a porson w'as possessed. pos-sessed. If Miss Barnctt hadn't possessed- her watchful littlo Imp she wouldn't bo where she is now on tho -oyal road to Broadway. m For Zoe Bar-nott, Bar-nott, you should know, is playing the role of! the sprighth; Annette in "King Dodo," and is said to bo thd theatrical-musical theatrical-musical "find" of the season. Nevertheless, will is a convenient term for thos'o who prefer not to be callod fantastical, and a most apparent quality in Miss Barnett. You can see it in the squareness of her jaws and the prominence of hor chin. She docs things not on more impulse, but bo- cause she is deeply determl them. , She has don some til have boon described as iinpB will probnblv do ot hers ; achievable. Indeed, in a 'guL Miss Barnett resembles lfl young girl, who said: "M Why can t I look. in my ear ym I know T could do It A If I put myself to It. iff. You never can tell 'till you m- You never can Ir II 'till yjM "King Dodo's" chic eM been known as- tho girl '') seltzer and electricity: sh(B called the hard-luck kid, Somj on the stage with an iroa?B her head and a steel bracefli bone. Beginning with Iik formance as Annette up t9 lime she has had a sericfli' that would dishearten a IoR person, but she keeps rifcbBfc ting just the same. Near her right e3'e issHpc she received while doingMpi dance in the second aet.cBii sho whirled against a pieSfi and hnishcd tho perfonnitiMH head bandaged up. AnoUSjt was poisoned eating cnhriflHb was taken ill during theB Doctors were called and-Sai her whilo she was not oAft and tho audience had n9i pain she was enduring, hftt was ordered to the hosplisMft told her sho had dipbtlieflE fused to go and went iiK her work. The ailment pS nothing more thnn a porcjE last accident, was to kurt'hiE doing her sliding daucc. 7j9E to be sprained, but sho hanE and it lias given hor H'tloJH She thinks sic has outljyKS Anyway, Zoo BarnettE |