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Pirates, 10; Indians, 9 T he wish of Peter Pan never to get any older has heen answered in the nicest possible way. Mary .Martin’s performance tomorrow night in the James M. Barrie classic has been put on color tape, giving the production the blessing of eternal youth—a quality, heretofore reserved ex¬ clusively for Tennyson’s brook, the figures on Keats’ Grecian urn, and Maurice Chevalier. Thus, NBC has made sure that kids who aren’t even a gleam in anybody’s eye will get the chance to see the merriest, warmest, most-frolicsome ex¬ cursion into Never-Never Land ever assembled bn land, sea, or—certainly—on the air. It’s doubtful that any single program has ever been so closely identified with a network as has “Peter Pan” with NBC. Our first two presenta¬ tions of the fantasy (in 1955 and 1956) attracted a combined audience of about 125,000,000 viewers, not a one of whom believed that Cyril Ritchard’s “Captain Hook” was anymore villain¬ ous than a collie pup. Since that second version—which, like the first, was staged, choreographed and adapted by Jerome Robbins—NBC, Miss Martin and Mr. Ritchard have received thousands of requests for another TV performance. The pleas come from young and old alike. A mother will write to say she acquired a new infant in 1954 (now, now—let’s not blame everything on NBC) and would we do another “Peter Pan” for his benefit? Or an eight-year-old will say, “My parents tell me I saw ‘Peter Pan* on TV, but I don’t remember it. Will it be on again soon?” "SOON" IS TOMORROW NIGHT. We * ..... think it’s the best “Peter Pan” ever done any¬ where. But despite the ostensible advantage of having televised the work twice before, it was, in many ways, die toughest one to put together. Why? Well, for one thing, Miss Martin is now} as always, a perfectionist (we wouldn’t want her any other way) JAnd, despite her rigorous sched¬ ule in Broadway’s“The Sound of Music,*! she worked as hard on this “Peter Pan” as if she were some unknown trying to make good. Her preparations to resume die title role began long before formal rehearsals started. For