THE FORBIDDEN WARD
When Sir Gerald dv Maurier launched the Peter Pan League at the performance at St. James's Theatre, London, recently, he told how, after ho and Peter and Wendy visited the Great Ormonde Street Hospital for Sick Children to play the nursery scenes in one of the wards, he strolled around the hospital and found another ward. Sir Gerald asked a nurse just coming out ■whether he might visit the children. In spite of her "No," he-slipped in when she had gone down the stairs. He sat on the children's beds, and as (hey did not seem to be sleepy he told them the story of Poter Pan, reports the London "Sunday Times."' They loved it, and it seemed a shame that they had not been allowed to join the other children in the ward in which the performance had been given. So Sir Gerald gave tho little girl who was cuddling up tightly against him an extra special hug and asked "Why?" And she said; " 'Cos we're infectious."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 3
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171THE FORBIDDEN WARD Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 3
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