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DANNY
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THE FIVE PENVIES
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Dorsey, Benny
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1960.
Tragic end of Peter Pan
Horseless
carriage journey
London, Apr. 13.
A 74-year-old man in a 61-year-old car will begin
BOY WHO DID
GROW UP
HATED NAME
1,000-mile sentimental UNT
journey next week, it was
announced today.
By WALTER PARTINGTON
London, Apr. 13. JNTIL he died at 68 Peter Davies was Peter Pan. He was the Little Boy Who Never Grew Up: the boy who believed in fairies. The name was the gift to him of playwright Sir James Barrie and Peter Davies hated it all his life,
But he was never allowed to forget it until, as a shy, refiring publisher. he fell to his death on of a train April 5 in front at Sloane Square Kation in Tot- don.
The ear, an 1800 Woldey, ts the only known survivor of 05 "hurseless carringes" that took part in on Justorie 1,000-inile trial run through the main cen- tres of Britain in April 1000.
The driver, Mr St. John C. Nixon, will set out in the *headquarters of the Royal Auto-
mobile Club in Londen en April LA London coroner ruled on 23, arned with a large umbrella Tuesday that "Peter Pan" com- to protect him from the British mitted stelde on April 5 alght elimate. The day beture, April by jumping in front of the tel 22, survivors
900 while depressed because of his will be the luncheon quends of falling health, according to m the B.A.C. Chairman, Al Wilted; AP report). Andrews-China Mali Special.
of the
Capitol
FINAL TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
Theirs was a wonderful y
love storyl
MG.N
SIR WALTER SCOTT'S
Quentin Durward
III CINEMASCOPE AND IN COLOR
ROBERT TAYLOR
KAY KENDALL ROBERT MORLEY
Opening To-morrow
YAGYU SECRET
SCROLLS"
In TohoScope & Color To-morrow At 11,00 a.m. U.I. COLOR CARTOONS
To-morrow At 12.30 p.m. "'INTERNATIONAL CIRCUS REVUE"
It was 58 years ago and Peter Davies was a buy at 10 when be first met Barrie in Kensington Gardeus.
The fairy stories, Barsie told Peter and three of his four brothers grew to "Peter Pau" ....with Peter as the origina
that Barrie Stories
retold and rewrote long after the play about I the httle Loy wh never glowi ald had become part of the English scene.
PETER DAVIES
The boy grew up.
Half residue
Barrie,
remote in his own left £3,000 and a shalowy and withdrawn work, of the estate.
And 75-year-old Mrs A. V. never knew how much he e-
Pauline barrassed his favourite; ember-Drummond who as
twin in rasement 1:21
with Chase played the first began
the festproduction of Peter Pan rangings at Eton.
After Peter's parents died -- in 1904 regullet; "I will remem- his father was a K.C.- Bairie,ber that when Peter Davies was made the brother: his words, is a little boy some of us went to rivee, Miss Madge Murray, said his nursery to play a few scenes for him. There can't be many of rum
Beaumont her Marylebone, home-
Curs
"My uncle was devoted to the boys' parents. When they died the boys came to mean more to hin then anything else in the world. But that name never brought Peter 1 scrup of pleasure.
"Ife was like Sir James be I didn'i likę publicity. When he got married all started again." But Barrie went on writing abul the brothers. He put them into stane of his greatest work. Their beautiful mother was be "Mrs Darling" of Peter Pan. As the boys grew up, the stories!
went on.
Barrie was godfather to Peter Davies's first son. Davies was at Barrie's bedside at his death. In
us left now,'
Nina Boucicault, who played Peter in that fist production! and Ulda Trevelyan, the first! Wendy, are both dead.
Peter Davies's younger brother ( Nicholas, in his orties, is now the only survivor of the Ave brothers. He is mattaging direc- for of the publishing firm.
POOR HEALTH
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MARATHON
ROW SETTLED
Port Moresby, Apr. 13. A New Guinea land dispute which has continued for 59 years and cost the lives of at least 10 people, has onded.
Authorities have ruled that a
Gazelle Peninsula uf New 100-acre tract of land on the rightfully belongs to Britain,
the present European owners,
A Tribe of natives had claim- 1 the 1s now worth £1 reputed LA100,000 had never born pak for.
The tribesmen demanded t cash settlement for some of the tand and that the rest be re- turned to them.
The Territory
Commissioner
of Titles, Mr C. P. McCubbery, in eilings in Rabaul, ruled the i tribe had no legal rights to the
land.
In Port Moresby forley Mr MrCubvery said " is my view that the issue was an anelent Hght by a wrong brought to antive destre to get mare land for cocon growing and after 60 years I think the depute has been settled once and for all.
Evidence at the hearing sold the dispute began In during the German administra- tion of New Guine.Chant Mail Sportol.
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There's no thrill like the thrill of
THE FRI STORY
A private member's motion appeared on today's House of Commons Agenda Urging the Government to raise its contribution to the World Refugee Year Appeal to not less than: JAMES £500,000.
The UK Government's Inn- tribanion to the appl now stands at £200,000.
of
miugees
The motion, tabled by Labour MP Mr Albert Roberts, also Peter Davies had been in poor calls on the Government "to further and more health fer more than two years. give a
Said publisher friend: "Mr
wowards generous contribution Davies was almost as patho-Slleviating the plight
the as Barrie in his thousands of Algerian logically shy own way."
in Tunisia and Morocen." Perhaps that was the unseen It also raked for the relaxa- Barrie's £173,000 will he was! Hink that drew the playwright tion of health regulations to and The Title boy together in allow refugees to enter Britain Kensington Gardens 5 years to be continued for so long as ago, on the spol now marked by
there is need," and for special to the child who will consideration a slatur
to be given to never, as Peter Davies did, grow "victims of Nazi concentration old.
and slave labour camps.-Chinn -Lonmina Express Kerster).
Mail Special.
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Ineko Arima
Triji Takahashi
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TECHNIOGLON I
Pushed ship Firemen
Liverpool, Apr. 13.
Seventy doclors lined
up
against the side of a 4,000-ion cargo ship and physically pushed it away from the quay-
go out
Sydney. Apr. 13.
from
The Sydney metropolitan area wall while one of the crew who was virtually unprotected had fallen into the water was fre for two and a half hours 10- rescued at Liverpool docks to-day when only a few senior off- Uris day---Reuler.
eers were on duty carly afternoon.
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Sadako SAWAMURA
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The city's 1,200 permonent firemen and 200 station offers held stopwork meeting at the Sydney Trades Hall to discuss demands for increased wages.
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