Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-04
PETER PAN


My faeric bark upon a faerie sea
! set adrift dreaming with half
Forgetting life and all lifc's mys-
tcrieS.
Whilst ever farther from the world I
fee.
All, all forgot, save just the heart of
ms,
Watching the faeris lights around
Until before my starded gaze there
Immortal Youth! and JOY in Youth
twas thee!
What is like thee, thou rarely radiant
boy?
Tho carly morning sun upon tho
From which is born the dewdrop' Or
the JOY
With which a poets heart in verse
UnCloses?
The love-light in a girls eyes Peter
say,
Laughed Peter Pan. and, piping, dane
ed away
Isabel ormiston.
Maude Adams'visits always COM
ing too few and far between never
fan to be turned into epoch markers
by the Salt Lake theater going public
The artist is beloved, first on her own
account. because II was here that she
first saw the light of day. and on the
salt Lake stage that she felt the mrs.
growth of the wings which were 10
bear her away to fame and fortune
second. because she has achieved
world wide reputation through her
own efforts and Our people always
love TO pay the tribute clue to genius
The audience that filled the ola
thcater, with which SO many OF Mahue
Adams early memories ana trluHlpuS
are connected, was most beauutul 10
behold. The fashion, wealth, culture
and briLiancy of the city were OUT
IN heavy numbers. every seat pelns
occupied and much standing room pc
sides The series of oYations accorded
Miss Adams have not been equnlIeu
bv ANYTHING seen In the TheateF slhio
she herself was the central nsuI'
three years ago--not two years as seN-
oral writer's have II, After every cur
,ain sbe was called out and the tenn
pestuous applause was so prol"useu
that the time NJ rendition must nave
been heightened fully 10 minutes. SnS
was showered with floral offerings ana
at one time when she came ptloI'
the curtain her form was hardy Fls,'
BILE behind the small forest on NH'[
can beauties. which she held IN hT'
arms Win the modesty which IS az
wavs characteristic of her, she IN
sisted on bringing with her SOM
member of her company 10 HIldI -
trlumphs. The whirl~ind OF ehlllu
siasm that marked the evening IeasuS5
no doubt that Maude ADAMS ann
setor pen have scored the triumph
I'm Salt Lake which has marheu ~
progress over the breadth OF the lahu'
The man or the woman VINO enters
the thcatcr during the engagement OF
Peter Pan" should pause one otie ~
moment al the portals. 10 pTedtHe wv
old sentiment.
Backward. turn backward, oh time III
thy flight,
night
with this spirit in ones heart, the
most blase deVOtee of society, or inv
most prosaic business man. cannot lAll
10 gather from Barrie's wonderful play
an evening OF exquisite enjoyment, III
is n play conceived for children, and l"l
those children OF larger growth VINO
are willing TO carry themselves BACK
10 the days OF their childhood. II a
man or woman never had youth IN
which fairy lore, stories OF the bloody
pirates Of the main and the Wopdet-
mi deeds OF the red men OF the forest
all nuu an 1hliillb paw AAlNlt 49,
man or woman might not enjoy the
delicacy, the humur and the quaintness
OF Peter Pan but such people, luds-
ing by the scenes OF laughter and en-
thusiasm which followed the story, are
few indeed In Salt Lake. Barrie never
showed himself more a master, than m
his delightful treatment Of the adNen'
lures OF Peter Pan, a boy who never
grew up, but took 10 fairy land and the
tree tops TO avoid going TO school and
some day being made president The
blending of the delicate, the grotesqua
and the touches Of the melo-dramatlc
all woven together with q magic that
no one but Gilbert or Barrie could
have exercised, was most enchanting
throughout.
Miss Adams ability TO sway an audi
ence, TO pick up an entire house and
carry OH It's imagination, bag and
baggage wherever she listed was never
better evidenced than last night The
whole gathering followed Peter Pans
heroic adventures with brea thlessness
that must have been most natterlng 10
the artist Her reading. her laughter