The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-17
THE CHILDREN WHO PLAY WITH PETER PAN.

tempt the merry persiflage with Liza.
TEveTy night as she leads off the dog
Mana at the end of the performance,
she goes up to the stage manager and
says. Did I done good tOniEht?' Mrs.
smith. Liza's mother travels with the
company, but is always careful to re-
member that her daughter is pretty
near years old and is a regular act
ress and that therefore she must never
presume TO offer suggestions, much less
orders about her stage department.
Liza was personally coached in the part
bv Miss Adams. who first acted it all
out for her And ever since Liza sticks
rigidly to the way NTH Adams did it
Mana, the dog nurse, would rather have
Liza give him more room to enter the
Darling house, as he comes in the last
act with his new tail, But Liza re-
members Just where Miss Adams stood
when she rehearsed the part, and viii
not bulge. Hence the end of Nana's
tail and Liza's face always meet in that
scene.
Liza is Dorothy Smiths first speak
ing part. It was only by a stroke OF
fate that she got the part at all. The
Liza who played the part the first
season of Peter Pan grew so tall that
she lost her job. Dorothy was discover
ed at Mrs. Fernandez'S by Miss Adams
who had no sooner entered the estab-
she caught sight of Dorothy and clasp
ed her in her arms with delight. On or on
the stage Liza is certainly an irres1st-
ibIe temptation to drive any young fell
low writing billets-dOuX, sending her
flowers. or waiting by the hour in the
alley by the stage door. only II ought
to be said that Liza reserves all her
extra affection for Miss Adams. At
the end of the performance each night
I of no Oaf 81
pany passing Miss Adams dressing
room calls out Goodnight, Miss
Adams. Not so Liza, John, Michael,
or Augusta. They go right in for a
goodnight kiss.
"Apd there are business meetings,
too. at the chocolate club. Michael in
sfsts on explaining to Peter how that
evening he happened TO say 'gunneP
instead Of kennel. it may be the
southern blood in MichaePs veins. but
it is only rarely that he can clearly
straddle the line, there's a man asleep
in the kennel
ct was during the long run Of Peter
Pan at the Empire last season that
| John was taken down with tho
humps Oh. mluCky day for Augusta
| Schendel, Johns understudy Ordin-
ari!y Augusta is just a plain wolf, with
no lines to speak. But at very short
notice she donned Johns costume and
played mis- part letter perfect. She was
delighted a the opportunity and wrote
John a letter sympathizing with him in
his illness and urging him not to hurry
back. But her most emphatic act of
gratitude was to sit for some new
photogra phs, which she signed Augusta
! ScbendeI. wolf and John at tho sama
time and sent them to friends far and
wide Augusta is Il years old. She
was originally engaged to play q wolf
for two nights while Peter Pan was
being performed at Buffalo. But her
odd sayings and vivacious manner SO
delighted Miss Adams that she adopted
little Augusta and is educating her by
private tutor.
arrangements are always made for
the schooling of the children during an
/ enga cement like the present one at Ill
inois. For a while public schools ans
wered very well. But Augusta, who
| on occasions is a very set individual.
could not get along very well at the
public schools, so a private tutor had
to be secured That. of course. was a
signal for John Michael and Liza
at once to register complaints about
their teachers. The private tutors
class was increased.
There are three mothers (Johns.
Augustus, and Liza's), who travel
everywhere with the company at
| Miss Adams expense. They care
scrupulously for the little ladies and
| gentlemen. Carriages meet them at
the depot, and their hotel arrangements
are made in advance. All four of them
spent their last summer with Miss
Adams at Onteora, her home in the
! CatskillS
In fact, one does not wonder that
the factory inspectors have raised a
threatening finger at the children in
the Peter Pan company. They really
are very much abused. How much
more comparable they would be IL
john were a messenger boy or an
errand boy: Liza calling out cash in
department store; Augusta sealing
envelopes in an ill-ventilatedi mercan-
| tile house, and Michael standing upon
her little feet all day wrapping bundles
Then the factory inspectors would nos
raise a threatening finger, for the laW
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