Shouts And Murmurs Echoes of a Thousand And One First Nights
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Wendy, for instance, was what Henley's little girl used to call Barrie in her sincere effort to call him "Friend." In the chapter on origins it must be told, too, how Barrie at first regarded "Peter Pan" as Hook's play. That is why he took it to His Majesty's before he took it to the Duke of York's. He had in his mind the vision of a pirate the like of which had never been seen on stage or quarter- deck, so he plaimed the role of Hook for Sir Herbert Tree. "Barrie has gone out of his mind, Froh...man," Tree said. "I am sorry to say it; but you ought to know it. He 's just read me a play. He is going to read it to you, so I am warning you. I know I have not gone woozy in my mind, because I have tested myself since hearing the play; but THE LEGEND OF "PETER PAN" 191 Barrie must be mad. He has written four acts all about fairies, children, and Indians running through the most incoherent story you ever listened to; and what do you suppose? The last act is to be set on top of trees." And long afterward Tree, in becoming sack- cloth and ashes, told at a dinner how he in after years would have to be known as the manager who had refused "Peter Pan," nor did it subtract from the pain of confession that it was misunder- stood, and next day he had to explain he had scarcely been seeking to convey that it was the role of Peter for which Mr.
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