Nicholas "Nico"

[Dala]

I made a search about Nico on internet and i thought that i would find more about him because he was the last surviving of the Davies Boys. But i didn't find a lot of things about him. I know that he joined Peter Davies Ltd... but was it his only job? does anybody know what he did in his life (his job or something else...)

[andrew]

If you search for "Nico" on the database, you will find dozens of letters from him to Mary Hodgson, to whom he wrote at least one letter a year giving his news.

[Dala]

okay, good. im going to do it. thanx a lot.

[Monika89]

Nicholas wasn't in "Finding Neverland". Why?

[Dala]

Maybe because the director didn't think that his character was interesting for the movie, he was too young. I guess, cause I don't see any other reason.

[Monika89]

Probably you're right. It could be that as you said.

[Hannah High]

There's a lot of film constraint reasons (combing characters, reducing actors). This is not a reason, but an observation: the character/actor "Michael" in Finding Neverland acted way more like the real Nico than the real Michael.

[ecb]

The original play on which FN was based - The Man who was Peter Pan, by Allan Knee also leaves out Nico.  The reason of course is because Arthur was also left out.  FN compresses time - having Barrie meet the Llewelyn Davies family in 1903 or so which was when Nico was in the midst of being born.  FN could hardly have a pregnant Sylvia with no Arthur about! 

I would definitely recommend that you read Nico's letters to Mary Hodgson - faithfully written year after year with his happy personality coming through very clearly.  His handwriting is small, but very clear and he is a very good writer!

And here is a fan of the wonderful ghost writer M.R. James writing of his epistolary encounter with Nico (who was at Eton when James was provost)

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pardos/ArchiveMRJLetter.html

[andrew]

Thanks for that link - entirely new to me.  When Nico first read my scripts for The Losdt Boys, he commented wryly, "I suppose if I'd committed suicide, I might have had a bigger part!"

[Hannah High]

When Nico first read my scripts for The Lost Boys, he commented wryly, "I suppose if I'd committed suicide, I might have had a bigger part!"

Ah, that's exactly what I was thinking earlier today! I remember that line somewhere in a discription under the audio clips. Nico always makes me laugh! One of the things he said that had me falling of my seat was stuff about Jack's kid Timothy. I almost retyped it here, but it's just not funny unless Nico himself accounts for it...it's on page 4 of Nico's audio files if anyone cares to give a listen.