In which Anne spooks herself silly and we learn the terror of "white things," then Anne meets yet another kindred spirit, whom she promptly tries to poison.
After the treatise I wrote last time on Canadian government and nineteenth-century poetry and stories, I only had to check out a couple of things this time around. "Tory" is just a nickname for the Conservative Party, like last time we found out that the Grits were the Liberals. Anne accidentally flavors her cake with
anodyne liniment — "partly" your fault, Marilla? Really?
You put medicine in a bottle labeled "vanilla." — which is basically just a pain-relieving lotion of some sort, often with some sort of alcohol or acetone base. Tasty!
Our cover here is from a tie-in edition to the
1934 movie version of
Anne of Green Gables, and on the cover there we've got Gilbert Blythe played by
Tom Brown and Anne Shirley played by...
Anne Shirley? What? Oh, I see. She was born Dawn Evelyeen Paris, started acting as a toddler and went through a bunch of different stage names, eventually changing at 16 from "Dawn O'Day" — yeesh — to "Anne Shirley" to coincide with the release of this film, distinctly her most famous. She was in a few other things, and retired from acting at 26. Really, the only people in the entire cast and crew that I've even heard of — and I'm no slouch when it comes to old-time Hollywood — is a very young
Ann Miller in her first film role as "Child Extra (uncredited)," and
Charley "
Uncle Henry"
Grapewin as Dr. Tatum in this, just one out of the
ten movies he was in in 1934 alone.
Dang.
Did I use too many em dashes in today's post? Hmph. I like em dashes, shut up.
If you would like to read along, the text can be found at Project Gutenberg. No reading ahead, though!
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