Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-18

cess to her credit IN Barrle's
comedy of Peter PAN" Her
acting Of It has brought holiday
crowd ana a Christmas spirit to the
Empire theater SIX weeks ahead Of
time.
Just how Miss Adams came to antci-
pate the calendar In this way and her
sensations In doing 1t she explained
the other afternoon to a New York
Herald reporter,
zone afternoon last year" said Miss
Adams. while | was playing The Lit
tie Minister ana 'Op o. Me Thumb at
the Empire theater. Mr. Frohman call
ed to have a talk about plans for my
coming season He told me lie had AS
You Like It in mind for me, also an
other Shakespearian play and one Of
the old comedies, He said he would OH
the Following afternoon show me some
OF the scenes In the Shakespearian
plays ana we could then decide upon
the WORK IN which / would appear
Meanwhile he gave me the manuscript
Va tNNN I hAA w Itdut UtIduSt IL WAS
| play by Mr., Barrie.
Il read the play after going home,
| ana was 80 completely won by the char.
| acter OF dear Peter and so thoroughly
| interested and thrilled by his numer-
| Gus adventures that | fell I'M love with
| MIN at once, In the evening. when
! saw Mr., Frohman AT the theater,
| said The Shakespearan plays and
| the old comedy that we spoke Of are all
| right, but | would like to play Peter
| Pan" That is how | come TO be act-
ing In another Barrie play this season,
but that Is not all of the story
INSPIRED THE STORY.
The season before last, when was
| IN London, Mr., Barrie said to me one
| day.
"A character which is in my mind
| | propose to make play Of. and that
character has come to my mind through
you
II thought no more Of the remark UNI
| I'll | was reading Peter Pan the after
noon | have already spoken Of. when
| 1t came back to me. and | seemed at
once to feel and understand its mean
| ing. For while | read Peter Pan and
was fully conscious Of all the fine parts
In which | had previously appeared and
of all the fine plays that had been pro-
duced for me, It seemed that nothing
| had ever read before, nothing | had
| ever imagined and no play IN which
| had ever appeared had appealed TO me
| so strongly or inspired me with such
full and direct happiness and with such
| anxiety to appear IN il. Every line of
! II thrilled me, and as | passed from
| scene to scene an affection for dear
| Peter grew and took hold Of me,
| until was perfectly wrapped
| IN spell Of desire to be Peter
| Pan himself. For a moment | must ac-
| knowledge that / was dsloyal TO dear
Lady Babbie and to the well beloved
| L'Aiglon.'
| Mr.. Frohman, / believe said moth
| ing to Mr.. Barrie about my anxiety
to play Peter until he met him last
| spring in London. After the meeting H.
sent me word that Mr.. Barrie, in reply
to his statement, had said, Whether
or not Miss Adams was to play Peter
Pan ! did not know, but l am going to
send her word that It was she who in
| spIred the writing Of the play
| And so what was In my mind with
| regard TO the play, the part and myself
| was really true.
| II am so happy TO think that all the
people who go to the theater and who
loved Babbie of The Little Minister
| are now going to love Peter. | have
this feeling from the wonderful recep-
ton which has been given me In the
part. and | am especially happy and
glad on that great genius MIR. Barrie
| account. becaust the success which The
Little Minister had In New YORK Is &c
be duplicated here In Peter Pan Peter
seems to inspire the same love In tht
public that Babbie did. ] know this be-
cause | have already received a grea'
many delightful letters about Peter
PAN and they are all written In the
same sweet, affectlonate and admirins
vein in which the numerous Babhle let
ters received by me during the many
times I played It were written.
peter Pan, II may seem strange fol
me to say. Is the most difficult charac'
ter that | have ever played. Peter
l<eens me ever so busy from 8 O'Clock
untn l1-no, not from TO II, but
good deal later than II, because Peter
does not leave me when the play Il
over, He clings 10 me almost through
all my waking hours, and he is with me
ms much on the street and in the home
as he IL on the stage, He is charm
| Ing companion az all times, for ther'
Is the perpetual breath Of youth In al
his achievements and an eXuberance o.
10y and life throughout his character
MUST FLY, DANCE AND SING,
cit Is the most satisfying part II
that way that could fall TO the lot o.
an actress, and there is real repayment
Of the trouble and work Of acting hin
In the qualification and happiness which
such creation inspires, You see, Pc
ter gives full opportunity for playing
with feeling. and also with comedy anC
IA I'm every way a part that require
the fullest attention Of the actor II
addition TO this. Peter must fly, Pete
must dance and Peter must sing, Until
I appeared in this play / had neYe
sung on the stage with an orchestra
accompaniment, When il came TO dom.
this at the Empire last Monday eyeninl
il was a serious moment Tor me, ana
may add, It still Is,
"Then, there was the all importan
question whether ! was really going t.
Gv or not on the opening night thu
one thought that flied my mind almos
TO the exclusion Of everything else
when I was about to say, See me fly.
was that / might not fly. suppose
didn't fly, what would happen? Tia
was real excitement. | tell you.
"That trouble | got over, however
but It made way FOR another / hat
to remember that away down there h
the fourth act, after lighting a hand
to hand conflict with the pirate, Hook
was 30 run TO the upper deck, grail
a rope and swinging out on Il, was &c
kick him overheard. | knew that Hooh
would be there all right, but all
through the scenes leading up to that
particular performance my mind kept
| ahAtF that and
went on from one thing 10 another
throughout the play, until was az last
comfortably seated In my little house
| nn thn tree tnns. where. without snaak.