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Show Poor Little Chip! Of the late Miss Jobnstone Bennett, In whose dea.h tho American stage lost a comedlonno of cxqulslto talent, an actor said: "Miss Johntone Dennett's success camo easily to her. SI could have succeeded as a writer had sho wished. She never went out but sho returned with n host of striking episodes sho had observed. "One day In tho early summer she said to mo, as sho .lunched on somo delicious fruit: " 'I was slumming yesterday. As I passed a fruit stand piled high with black bananas, soft strawberries, green watermelons and tho like, a Httlo ragged chap of six or sevon stopped before It, and I heard him say to the dealer, as ho pointed toward to-ward tho strawberries: Gimme a cent's worth o' rot-lens. rot-lens. o |