Excerpt from J. M. Barrie and the Theatre

Since 1902, the year of the production of The Admirable Crichton, Sir J. M. Barrie has been one of the most interesting figures in the British Theatre. No other dramatist has given so much delight to so many people and at the same time lived so apart from public life. The newspaper "interviewer" has long regarded him as morbidly elusive, nor has the most determined roar of "Author! yet succeeded in drawing him into the glare of the footlights.

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