Anne Appears as Anne

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 121, 15 February 1935, Page 16

Anne Appears as Anne

BEST seller since it was first published. in 190 S, throughout the world, “Anne of Green Gables,” has been brought to the screen as an RKORadio picture. More than one million copies of the book, written by L. M. Montgomery, have been sold in the United States and Canada, and the novel has enjoyed tremendous popularity in Great Britain, and has been translated into many foreign languages including the Dutch. French, Polish, Norwegian and Swedish. Sixteen-year-old Anne Shirley is featured in the film and Tom Brown plays the leading boy role. The featured adult roles are by Helen Westley and O. P. Heggie. Sara Haden and Gertrude Messinger are others in the cast. The story concerns an orphan heroine whom Mark Twain characterised as “the dearest and most moving and delightful child since the immortal Alice.” Adopted by a spinster and bachelor brother and sister who had been expecting a boy from the orphanage instead of a girl, she transforms their lives by her vitality and lovable character. Her romance with the most popular boy in the country school is also embraced.