Daniel Frohman Presents: An Autobiography; 1935.

When my brother arrived in London as usual that spring, Barrie told him he had written a rather fantastic play which he was very anxious to have Sir Beerbohm Tree produce at 'His Majesty's.'

He was to read the play to Tree the next day.

'All right,' said Charles, 'if he doesn't want it, I'll produce it. But of course he will want it.'

Barrie read the play to Tree. Thereafter Tree came to Charles in a state of alarm and excitement.

'Charles,' he said, 'our dear friend Barrie has gone mad.'

'What! How is the play?”

'It isn't a play,' Tree said. 'It's a nightmare, and he wants me to play the part of a pirate captain with a hook in place of a hand, He has a lot of young boys fighting an entire pirate crew with cutlasses and driving them defeated into the ocean. He has children living in the tree tops. He has a character called Tinker Bell, which is only a wandering spot of light. He has a big dog that acts as the nurse of three children. And, worst of all, he has an alligator walking across the stage with an audible clock in his stomach! Can you imaging anything more preposterous! Poor Barrie.'

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