A change from pantomime - Peter Pan, Boxing Day 1906
26 December 1906: Mr Barrie is concerned mainly with the fancies the reading of our first book of adventures conjured up in our mindsIf it were possible to reach manhood and womanhood without passing through the preliminary stages of boyhood and girlhood "Peter Pan" would appeal to us but indifferently. It appeals to us, however, not only because of the picture it gives of the thoughts and dreams of an age in which o…