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Show MAUDE ADAMS MAKES HER HOME FOLKS HAPPY WITH DELIGHTFUL BARRIE PLAY i. Children these days know so much." says Peter Pan, "and every time s child says be does not believe in fairies somewhere in the world a fairy dies. ' ' There should be a fairy for every boy and every girl, because every time a baby is born a fairv comes into existence, exist-ence, exclains the bov who wanted never to grow up and by no means be president. It is because so many of us have "grown up," have stilted imagination, have become too mercenary and com mercialized that Barrie wrote the delightful, de-lightful, fantastical play in which Maude Adams opened a return engagement engage-ment lest night at the Salt 1-aU theatre. the-atre. Peter Pan says he ran away from home the day he was born because he heard his mother and father say he would become president. He preferred to always remsiu a boy, carefree and hsppv. "He went to the Never, Never Never land, whetr there are fairies and the boys who when babies fell out of their perambulators. There are no girls because girls are too sensible, sars Peter, to fall out of their perambulators. perambula-tors. Peter Pan, like all boys, however, loves to hear good stories and so he slips around to the house of Mr. and Mrs. Darling and listens to Mrs. Oar-ling's Oar-ling's recital of "Cinderella." He loses bis shadow because Nana, the faithful old nurse dog, closes the window suddenly. When he returns and finds it, Wendy, the dsughter of the house, sews it on. Peter teaches Wendy and her two brothers to fly and they go with him to the Never, Never, Never land. Any one who retains a spark of youth within him could not help but revel in the adventures that occur after this. There are the Indians, to guard the children; the pirates, fierce and bold; the wolves and the ferocious lion. There is more than this: The pirates and the Indians flght, the former win and carry away children to the ship, leaving Peter Pan behind. The leader of tbe pirates leaves some poison for Peter but Tinker Bill, the fairy of light, drinks this to save hira. She is shout to die, but when the audience declares j faith in fairies she lives. There was nothing missing; the very , atmosphere reached out to you, and Man. If Adams straight, slim, eager, 1 embodying the very spirit of boyhood, ageless And elusive, playing the game in deadly earnest, full of poetic fancies was as the essence of that J"ng vanished van-ished day of pretend, clinging to voutu and freedom, appealing as a half -forgotten fragrance, touching! v reminiscent reminis-cent and delieiouslv fanciful Charm- : ing actress that she is. Miss Adams has never done anything more exquisite thsn this performance of Peter Pan." Liza, who wrote tbe play, makes a grownup want to go right up on the stsge and kidnap her for a dil. Nana, the nurse dog, not only brings hand clans of joy from the voungsters in the audience, but wins the parent-, as well; the pirate chief with bis awful hook makes shivers run up and down the backs of old as well as young. Ann Pit wood, as Wendy, was a delightful motherly girl for the boys ia the Never, Never. Never land. t "I'm youth eternal, I'm the sun rising. ris-ing. I'm tbe poet singing. I'm a little) bird that has broken out of its egg, , I'm jov, joy. jov!" cried Peter, who tesches us to look at life from the view- noint of the child and see things which indeed are nut childish, but life itself. I |