Peter Pan continues to enthrall but, writes Gerald Isaaman, the first man to play Captain Hook – Gerald du Maurier became haunted by the boy who never grew up

IT’S a centenary since Peter Pan appeared and, like JM Barrie’s classic tale of the boy who refused to grow up, which remains a vital and popular Christmas panto, the story of its creation has flown around the world.
But only part of that astonishing success story, as sweet and sentimental as those who still believe in fairies, has been told.

TV wit Stephen Fry remembered just how dangerously funny the late Peter Cook was at a Twelfth Night service on Thursday.
“If he had been even a quarter of one per cent funnier he would have had to be put down,” Mr Fry said.

A FILM commemorating the life of journalist Paul Foot is due to be released at the end of this month.

WHEN Irma Faith fled Hitler’s pogroms in the 1930s she, along with many other Jewish refugees, found it impossible to get the visas needed to enter other European countries or America.

TACTICS used to stop the spread of the MRSA superbug in intensive care at two Camden hospitals do not work, according to a major study.
The report by a team of doctors including leading University College London Hospital (UCLH) microbiologist Dr Peter Wilson showed that isolating patients did nothing to stop the spread of MRSA.