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Show "Peter Pan" is no longer a play, says a Gotham critic. It is an institution, a fact of nature like the process of the equinoxes. I never expect to see Miss Adams play in anything else. I don't know that I want to. When I am old and gray I hope to doder down to the Empire on Christmas week and see Miss Adams, still youthful and joyous, joy-ous, fight pirates, slay wolves and wave the star-spangled star-spangled banner. Only by that time I hope it won't take a quarter of an hour to set the scenes. Mr. Barrie has added an entire new act since "Peter Pan" was last here, and in many ways it it the most Charming of all. "Marrooner's Rock on the Mermaid's Lagoon" is the perfection of scenic art. The movement of waves and the play of moonlight on water is a perfect illusion. But more than that, it is the ideal spot for a boy to have the most dreadful experiences with pirated and rising tides. Mr. Barrie has lost none of the advantages of the opportunity. With the exception of this new act with its Jeanne Fowler, with Mclntyrc & Heath. added adventures, "Peter Pan" is the same wonderful won-derful imaginative anesthetic. For Christmas week, when you are beset by hordes of relatives, icemen, janitors, and even policemen, expecting piece on earth and good bills to men, "Peter Pan" is just the boyto make you foi'get your troubles. |