Barrie presents not the pirate or Indian of grown-up fiction but the creations seen by childish eyes." Barrie, described Neverland as an island of "coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers.and one very small old lady with a hooked nose." This was the cast of characters that populated turn-of-the-century playtime in Britain, and in the play, as one New York Times reviewer wrote in 1905, "Mr. Part of that delight was Neverland-a place where all the imaginings of the Darling children came to life. When Peter Pan opened in 1904, it was an instant hit, "from beginning to end a thing of pure delight," wrote The Times of London that December. ©Walt Disney Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection ![]() From left: Princess Tiger Lily, Indian Chief and Peter Pan as depicted in the 1953 film.
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