The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-30
HERE rs GOOD NEWS
"PETER PAM Is COMING

Here Is a delicious bit of news for New
ark playgoers. Dear, delightful Peter
Pan" is coming to town. Dainty Maude
| Adams is to bring him here to the Newark
Theatre a week from Monday, and Wen
all be counting the hours until he arrives
| And, when he does arrive, Wen all pc chii-
dren again together ard forget that We've
, ever grown up, AND Wen peno : ~
pleasure of the whimsical Mr.. Barrie, who
created him, and, when he asks us to be-
lieve in fairies, wen believe; and all the
JOYOUS unrealities of ~childhood's imagin-
ing will be real to us again.
1t is impossible to do ~jsutice in these
hasty words to the beauties of this most
richly poetic, fantastic and imaginative
play. One marvels that a childs 1alry
dreams-a fancy so delicate and intangible
could be put into the dramatic form at
all. Certainly there Is none but Barrie,
with the heart of a child and the soul OF
a poet, could have conceived 1t, let alone
carry his idea into execution, And II none
but Barrie could have written 1t, just as
| certainly there is none but Maude Adams
could so adorably interpret it. Two years
have gone since we saw the play, yet the
fragrant memory of it abides and Always
will as of the one greatest pleasure a long
course of t~heatregoing has ever given us
Dull to all inspiration of poetry and sly
humor and. the memory of childhood must
indeed be he who cannot respond to its
call.
'Peter Pam Is an idyll of the childhood
that came back. 1t is a common fallacy
that childhood is a matter of years, the
wise men of the generation will tell you
that 1t is a matter of temperament, or to
get away from the blatant four-syllabled
word, it is a matter of heart,
In a certain fashionable nursery there
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dog was a very remarkable dog, for he had
associated for some time with these chill
dren, until he had become superior to the
point of being able to act as their nurse.
Now, like many other superior children
these particular ones had been some
what unfortunate in their selection of
parents. not that their parents were
bad-far from it-they were very good
and kind. especially their mother, who was
very beautiful and all that a mother could
be. But she occasionally let father have
his own way, and trouble came of father
having his way, as every child, mother
and dog will tell you that trouble always
will happen when mother let's father have
too much of his way.
Now, the particular catastrophe that
brought about the interesting story OF
| Peter Pan was due to the fact that father
played a trick on the good dog Mana; in
fact, did no less a thing than put some
horrid tasting medicine in Nana's drink
ing dish. Think of that! OF course Mana
felt greatly hurt and looked so reproach.
fully at father hat the children cried on
of sympathy. That made father mad and
he said he would not be bossed in his owl
house by any dog, no matter how superior
it was, and what did he do but drag th'
dog out in the yard and chain him up
just as II he were a comma or garden
watchdog, or a 5000 bull pup.
Naturally something happened, for wher
a thoughtless father takes a dog ava.
from the children he loves something il
bound to occur. And this is what oc
Cured:
Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn't grow
up, n who lived in the Never Neve
Land, with all the. other lost children
came flying in at the window looking 70
his shadow, which had been, cut off by tn
window closing on IT one time when b
was listening to the three children belnI
told the story of cinderella by thei
mother. You see Peter did not have an,
mother to tell him delightful stories lik
Cinderella "The Three Little Bears
and Little Red Riding Hood so he ha
to go sneaklng around listening at nur
sery windows, while mothers told othe