"PETER PAN" 'AND THE DARLINGS

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 193, 9 May 1908, Page 11

"PETER PAN" 'AND THE DARLINGS

, :;All children, says "Queen-'Beo',' in the''Australasian," ought to be ,taken to. see • "Peter 'i''': Eari^''j.tne ; vmost":fari^stio^fair.y;<st6fy- ; 'ever ■ staged, - and. the ; unique; attraction at -the Princess's Theatre this holiday . time. To bogin at the- beginning, ,quaintis the dropcurtain, -.sweet little Wendy's . '.'Sampler" j workod by herself <J« canvas, with cross-stitch; : the;'play;. , up, Ihbreas/seeri. tho. prettiest: whif-o' and blue nursery,arid ttiled bathroom' to .correspond. ; ; .Thd threo. whito/beds havo/chiria-bluo'quilts, .jand.ovor. encased in a -~.--.'little i-'red•;Noah's'jark.-?-; For. ;nurse,'>the" threb ' children, . "Wondy, Jobn;- and ,-Michael :,Dar- ■; ling', "have; a - black and white Newfoundland ■ dog, :'which,.they;call/Nana. - She'.puts their night -clothes;'.-.to i.warmCby^the'"'fire, -/bathos tliom, - and . gives ' Jirichacl' ; his . medicine.. Wendy• l makes-;a' 'pretty;-picture in -her white ~ muslin,-arid.lacp.-hightgpwn;' with-her.-charm-, in'g .ovaliface,surrounded by\ dark!'curls, and tho boys;(real-:y'ourig imps) get into mauve, arid .white pyjamas. Wlien good-night has beeji-.Eaid .'tp . father, : '.and , to.. , mothor, all - is quiet J i ;and:'the~ little'night-lights guard each sleeping child.; .Then'-:comes- "Tinker Bell," Peter's, fairy,. ia >round; light ;darting ,every-: ; where, .accompanied .by- .tho tmkle of bells. • She' - puts -out - the night-lights, • and ■ makes all ready for , the '.of. 'Peter,' ' v/lio .', flies :'m. through /tho.;^'window; ■ •;MisV. ; Tittell Bnine wear's. :.,a ; '- red: leather .-/doublet;: ■. arid • brown 'hose'; arid'jaunty \brown; cap /with .red . : quill. Peter; comes' in search-of his shadow, ■ . which ■ Mrs; ' Barling ■ caught "the last time . he came capering about;:tho nursery: : 1 After a. .hunt, in ¥ which' ho■' flies: from be;d to Tied,|! : and then on to the mantelpiece, Tinker finds it. for-hiint folded up carefully in -'a .'drawer.' . How to-. fasten it- on is his next ; trouble,' and ho ..tries vainly to. do, so with soap,: but . cannot. Then Wendy Wakes up and sews it , on for him, Peter meanwhile telling hor of the fairies; the act.'endirig.iri.tho three .children flying out-of tho window to the "nevernever land" with Peter. . ■ . •The only sceno omitted in'the, present pro- . . duction is ,the mermaids',-' lagoon and the ac- . companyinfe mennaids' song,; otherwise every-, thing is done .with the same exactness as. . when produced in Ehgland by Mr. Dion Bou--1 cicaiilt,. whom '.we ■ all, ''remember,'.,,his;.'sister,' Miss- Nina. Boucicault, being' the first 'Peter 1 ,'Pan;,//' /;"; : '; ;: ■' .-. .To- , go ; ba'ck'; to the, :Peter's .hoine-.'is ■ - nriderground ; -'arid/the.'Eed. Indians : guard- it : from'''the;: piratesj'; up-':above. : : . .''Peter, and, ; the'•• pother/.boys ■; fl,;idrpssfor , Wendy,': and':'they:get .her'- a' cherry-re(l.:,cloth . skirt and'. loo'so: grey ''clb_th :jacket->nin .with ' rent;ribbons,-which :sh'e.*wears /over.:a .s'oft, , - whitevblouse,';/.with; clusters..'ofj'.red '.berries - cbistored:,in ' her/dark';.curls. . .'A-, nook"-' in', the quaint, 'rudeviritcrior isiset.apart'fpr,''Tinker ■ Bell;!'- 'sv:ho;■,.Bleeps!,ori■■ I 'a■,'doll^B , ' col;, arid has white . doll's furniture, 'and -whon : sho - gpes' t-o . bed; she; draws' together;,little 'chintz curtains.. It is when tbe children thirilirit is time they should 'roturn to/thoir :'parcnts'.;that all the • rbegins; for-'- they all,/ except Peter,' get;.taken.- prisoners-: by./the.; pirates;' .whose captain- (Mr. Loring: Fernie) is- a very fierce man, .with/ his - lead white / face,/ and dark- \ green volvet,'clothes-,with marquise : coat, . spangled with gold /ap'd /green,'; .and" three-' cornered hat, bound iforith gold braid.";; Peter, ,: after.,a lot/.of -fighting,'/kills"all.the pirates, ; and Michael,"tho stillest boy ;of:'all,/kills the'biggest pirato/and pokes.him wi'tli'his : sword :down',the hatchway.'/ , , ' In the end th'p^'.^'ot'home,' and the pathos of the scene on'their-return would certainly move anyone. ■ F?w : changes have happened while-they wcrS/'ivith/tho fairies,-except that . they find from. tho'.nurserv', ■md their.father."living in her kennel, which, by. the white, arid placed' in the nursery, and on-.Nana's/feeding-bowl :is painted When tho children have left Peter,'ll9..-finds ;a -home/"on. the 'treetop's/''"and(therein lives, always, for he is a ' boy who nwer wants to grow old, and have to go into^in.'office. Wendy's -mother, allo'ws her, to. help Poter with his spring cleaning once a' yiir,' arid sho -is seon flying' through' the' 1 air, 'there land back, on : her broom. The last we spe of. Poter is saying good-byo to hci'.'after "one of these visits at the door, and the)),"Tinker Bell" and. all the other ■ fairies''fomo out as flying stars, .arid Peter his house.: to, nlay ; his pipes,; and bo ends, the romantic tale. .... Into,, all the scenes connected with fairylaryy ".'-Ijird and animal; lifo r.ro introduced. TI16" ostrich knows all the boys and comes to daiico.wifch them.-..Then there is a pack of (rolvOs, arid a lion, whose tail Poter cuts off,-and the, crocodile, a splendid imitation,' which is always on tho hunt/for the. Pirate King, whose arm' Po'-T cut off in/a .fight •' and. gave "'to; him, tho , tasty morsel making ■" h'irii wish for the rest..-

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