Anne of Green Gables
The stars that shone in your horoscope Made you of spirit and fire and dew is the quotation on the title page of Anne of Green Gables, and it is perhaps a tall order to expect spirit and fire and dew to be done up in neat 15-minute packages and handed through the microphone to an appreciative audience. Yet it more or less happens. The authentic ingredients are there, and Anne of Green Gables is still dewy-eyed. The time may come when she will approximate more closely to the romantic heroine of the morning serial, the inevitable passage of instalments will put her hair up and skirts down, bring oomph to her voice, Gilbert Blythe to her heart, and possibly embarrassment to her listeners. But that time is not yet. She is still the delightful child of the carrotty pigtails and skimpy ginghams, healing the sore places of her soul with the balm of literary phrase, a child "not quite like other little.girls," fitter for the magic company of the immortal Alice than for the impreving companionship of the long-lived Big Sister. ,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 13
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186Anne of Green Gables New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 406, 3 April 1947, Page 13
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