The sun., 1909-02-07

-There was an eloquent look OF DISCUS
on the face Of the driver Of the jauntina
car when he muttered. Sure this isn't
Phonix Park
'Tis manly sport was the triumph
ant answer Of Mr.. Barrie once more chic
guide OF the expedition.
y -1he match went on-more tea wa
served; the match was resumed. more
tea was served. 1t was nearly O'Clock
when the last tea was served.
''Some day well see the park, said
Barrie. as they rode hack 10 town.
/ Yea, said Miss Adams. If we can ever
get TO il without sncountering u cricket
match
/ while he has no children OF his own
Barrie is yet the friend and playmate OF
a small army Of little boys ana girls. BI,
perhaps his greatest happiness comes
with the coming Of Christmas time, when
he knows he is going meet what he calls
the children of peter Pan" There are
the littlc lads and lasses that take the
parts in his wonderful fantasy. 1t Is a
wonderful sight 10 see them come before
the rehearsal, with eyes bulged out and
their faces wreathed in anxiety lest when
they are measured they will he told they
are too big 10 be Peter Pan children any
longer The little folks crouch down and
try all sorts of devices to keep within the
81 re limit. and OF course this affords Barrie
great joy. In his original manuscr ipt Of
the play a fact that | thin!, has never
been told before arrie had a scene in
the last act in which fifteen mothers
appear upon the stage 10 claim their lost
children. Now. the principal enjoyment
that Barrie gotS from Peter Pan il to
be one of those children. their playmate
and their friend, But when he found
that he would have to 60 among the
fifteen mothers and also be their play
mate and their friend he very speedily
cut out the whole scene and drove the
mothers from the theatre.
His extreme modesty. his simplicity
and rather slight appearance often cause
curious mistakes. You see. Barrie does
not look like Barrie, as one might ex-
pect him to look. Once at the box Office
of the Duke Of York's Theatre a letter
was given him from young lady who
WTOVf dI RTtdt ItiblI Va diliDtiOli
and Of her serious need OF a position in
some company. the note said that she
would be at the stage door and would
tell what parts she had played and re-
mind Mr.. Barrie of what plays he had
seen her in. Barrie usually does the
unusual thing. so he went at once to the
sta ge door He found the entire entrance
occupied by young lady who refused
to move and who showed by her looks
an unmstakable disdain for Barrie ar
he tried 10 enter the door. That left
Barrie with nothing to do but walk up
and down in front Of the stage door until
he was rescued. Later when it was all
explained and the young woman who
had bockaded the stage entrance turned
out to be the writer OF the letter it was
difficult to say whether her amazement
at her own mistake was even then as
great as her ainazement at the un- Bssrie-
like appearance OF Mr.. Barrie.
Next to the children who play the
parts in these Christmas performances
Of Peter Pan | suppose Barrie is most
fond OF Mrs. Barrie, and then that they
are both fondest of the wonderful family
dog at their cottage on Leicester road.
Tho creature IL a shaggy Newfoundland
dog with really remarkable intelligence.
He is the original Of Mana, tho dog in
Peter Pam and Mr.. Barrie has forever
immortalized him in that wonderfully
ingenious description Of the way Mana
should deport herself which Barrie put
into the manuscript of Peter PAN One
A.. ~
hearSal of Peter Pan when the dog in tho
play was getting up in his part. After
apoogizing to the actor who played tho
part for tho way in which the really hard
work in il used him up Barrie said, looking
affectionately at his own dog. You see
how easily he takes it all. but he's Just a
dog Barrie is very fond Of repeating the
remark one old lady made to another as
they came slowly out Of the theatre after
seeing the performance Of Peter Pam
when one said to the other:
We'll, it's wonderful how they can
train dog to do this.
But he has another story-that when
Peter Pan had become famous the world
over. and Just as the man who had written
it might feel some joy in its fame, he one
day overheard an old couple going out Of
the theatre. the one murmuring to the
other, Well. you poutd come
And so he will ramble along in con-
vorsation when the mood strikes Barrie
10 converse. Perhaps he has wasted any
number Of wonderful stories that would
have become famous in print or told In
drama. but | am sure they never would
havo given him nearly as much pleasure
~ he gets from telling them to the Peter