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According to Denis Mackail (Barrie's biographer), Barrie employed Harry Brown as his butler and valet, and the latter's wife as his cook. They left their employment in 1922 due to Mrs Brown's health and retired to the country. Harry Brown was succeeded by "the pale and slightly sinister Frank Thurston" who remained with Barrie until the end, as his butler and valet.

R C Sheriff mentioned in his account of his visit to Barrie's flat (from A Leading Lady) that"a daily woman came in to cook and clear things up", so that's probably all the staff he had as he lived a very quiet life, especially towards the end.

The site was slightly reformatted a few years ago but here's the link. Hope this helps.

https://jmbarrie.co.uk/database

Hi Dani
Pretty much how I would rate these too - except I haven't seen Peter Pan & Wendy as yet, but I'm fairly prejudiced against it anyway, as I don't like what Disney do to the original stories and I never particularly liked their 1953 cartoon. Plus your detailed review would have put me off anyway - thanks for that, saved me wasting time watching it... By the way, have they again made Peter an elf in the movie, with silly pointy ears?

As for Pan, I would give it 0/10 - it was just awful, and made absolutely no sense at all. You haven't rated SyFy Channel Neverland miniseries, but that also deserved a 1/10 (Harry Potter meets Oliver Twist, with a sprinkling of Peter Pan).

I also loved the GOSH-based Peter & Wendy, although I thought Paloma Faith was totally miscast as Tinker Bell.

Did you have a look at the Russian 1987 version? Peter Pan looks like Little Lord Flaunteroy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv7m8Q9YdO4

You're right, it is confusing! I've had to look at different sources to piece it together. What happened was that Michael left Eton at the end of the summer, intending to enjoy a last summer holiday before joining the Scots Guards in the autumn. However, he changed his mind and went back to Eton for the Michaelmas Half while waiting to join the guards. Hugh Macnaghten wrote that "subsequently he  [Michael] wrote in the quiet of the holidays asking if he might return. He was welcomed back, and the record of his last Half is 'A wonderful Captain: he worries, but his judgment is unerring and his actions swift as lightning: the most admirable boy who has ever been in the house.'

The war ended in November, and Michael was finally persuaded to go to Oxford in January 1919.

Hope that helps!

I have added to the database an article published in Strand Magazine in January 1913 of Pauline Chase's reminiscences of playing Peter Pan between 1907-1913.
https://jmbarrie.co.uk/photos/pauline-chases-reminiscences-of-peter-pan-strand-magazine-1913

The reason the PDF is no longer available is most probably because it was removed, for questions of copyright, as it was in breach of the copyright. The only way to get a copy of the script is through Amazon or other official online outlet - unless someone has kept a copy of the PDF and can email it to you!

No, it’s not you. The site had to be taken off for work to be done on it to eliminate some bugs. Hopefully, it should be back in the next week or so. Hang on in there.