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Oh, for an hour of Herod!
1904 On witnessing the first performance of J M Barrie's children's play Peter Pan. Quoted in Denis Mackail Story of JMB (1941), ch.17. Records exist of something similar having been said by the English actress Dorothea Jordan when watching the child actor William Betty and his imitators in the early19c. | ||