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This is the fictional story of Mary Rose, a girl who vanishes twice. As a child, Mary Rose was taken by her father to a remote
Scottish island. While she is briefly out of her father's sight, Mary Rose vanishes. The entire island is searched exhaustively. Twenty-one days later, Mary Rose reappears as
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Norman O'Neill's original music for the 1920 production gained widespread acclaim. At the end of the first night, Barrie greeted the composer with "Well, O'Neill, I think we have made a success", and later wrote him a letter that "it was a lucky day for me when you had that inspiration." Barrie also
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Years later, as a young wife and mother, the adult Mary Rose persuades her husband to take her to the same island. Again she vanishes: this time for a period of decades. When she is found again, she is not a single day older and has no awareness of the passage of time. In the interim, her son has
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described the effect of the music in the stage directions of the published text, effectively incorporating the music into the play. Fay
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who refused to grow up. Time is seen as a quiet despoiler of happiness and innocence, and the lure of another world unblemished by its passing has an irresistible seduction."
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mysteriously as she disappeared...but she shows no effects of having been gone for three weeks, and she has no knowledge of any gap or missing time.
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had seen the play as a young man in its original production. Later in his career as a film director, he wanted to film it, asking
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as Mary Rose, a role which was written for her by Barrie. It was revived (with many of the same cast still in place) in 1926.
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gave the novel a starred review, calling the adaptation "a ghost story that should be suggested to a wide range of readers."
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grown to adulthood and is now physically older than his mother.
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