The Boy Comes Home was produced by Mr. Owen Nares at the Victoria
Palace in September, 1918, introduced afterwards into Hallo,
America! at the Palace, and played by Mr. Godfrey Tearle at the
Coliseum in the following April.

Belinda was produced by Mr. Dion Boucicault at the New Theatre in
April, 1918, with Miss Irene Vanbrugh in the name-part. Miss Ethel
Barrymore played it in New York. I hope it will read pleasantly,
but I am quite incapable of judging it, for every speech of
Belinda's comes to me now in Miss Vanbrugh's voice.

The Red Feathers has not yet been produced, one reason being
(perhaps) that it has never been offered to anybody. It is
difficult enough to find a manager, but when one has also to get
hold of a composer, the business of production becomes terrifying.
I suppose there is a way of negotiating these difficulties, but I
suspect that most of the fun to be got out of this operetta we have
already had in writing it.

In conclusion, I must distress my friend J. M. Barrie (who gave me
a first chance) by acknowledging my great debt to him. It would be
more polite to leave him out of it, but I cannot let him off. After
all, these are only "First Plays." I can always hope that "Last
Plays" will be more worthy of that early encouragement.

A. A. MILNE.