The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28

usea him nm. Barrie said, looking affect
ionately at his own dog, You see how
easily she takes 1t all, but she just a
dog Barrie is very fond OF repeating the
remark one lady made to another as they
came slowly out of the theatre after see
ing the performance OF Peter ran when
one said to the other:
Well, it is wonderful how they can
train a 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 writ
ten 1t might feel some joy In its fame,
he one day overheard an old couple go
ing out of the theatre, the one murmur-
ing to the other, We'll, you would come.
"And SO he will ramble along in con-
yersation when the mood strikes Barrie
to talk Perhaps he has wasted any
number of wonderful stories that would
have become famous in print or told IN
drama, but l am sure they never would
have given him nearly as much pleasure
as he gets from telling tnem to the Peter
Pan children, the little children that
play in the fantasy, with whom he chums
between the matinee and night-which Is
always a great event at The Duke of
Yorks theatre in the large room off the
stage where tea and cakes are served
and everybody gathers around the floor,
with Barrie in the middle telling stories.
when Barrie visits Paris he likes best
not fashionable Paris but the fair
grounds, where all the takers are gath
cred 1t is the acme of JOY for him to
throw the rings for knives; and once
when he was there while Peter Pan was
running at the Vaudeville theatre and
Barrie was living at the Maurice hotel,
the maitre d'hotel formed grave suspic-
ions of having such a person In the house
on finding 70 knives in Barrie's room one
morning That was the time when he
telegraphed from Paris to his little friends
in London what he had been doing, and
ended his telegram with the comment,
Won much, lost more.
"The first meeting of Barrie and Maude
Adams occurred in London and was
great surprise to even me. Miss Adams
had lust arrived, following her success
In The Little Minister [ was going to
superintend the meeting myself, and set
out for Barres home with that Idea In
mind but when l got there | found the
little playwright and the little actress
already very fast friends without
word to me- Barrie had himself called on
Miss Adams, dressed in tall hat the
rarest of costumes for him 1t seems
that when they first met but one word
was passed between them: Weir And,
then Miss Adams returned the visit to
Mr.. Barrie's place on Leicester Road.
ut is a saying with Barrie that Miss
Adams understands his characters betteG
than he understands them himself When
Barrie first told me the story of Peter
Pan he always spoke of the character
as Peter Adams.
During the writing of What Every
Woman Knows when | wrote Barrie
asking him how he got on, his answer
was. I think the finest and the fullest
ever sent by playwright to manager.
It was the simple remark that Maude
Adams dances all over my pages. Bar
ries great desire is to have Miss Adams
appear in one of his plays in London-a
wish am going to grant him some day
and that day, or night will mark the
birth of the new play in the great cycle
of Barrie dramas