Excerpt from Screenland, Vol. 41: May-October, 1940 When you see Anne Shirley in Warner Brothers' picture, Saturday's Chil dren, it will be for the last time as the wistful, immatuie girl that we have always thought he1. In the closing reel of that picture Anne announces that she is going to have a baby. In real life she is, too. The next time you see her. 011 the screen you'll have to regard her as completely mature, and a woman. There never was a blessed event that caused so much commotion in a family circle as this coming of the John Payne heir When Anne's mothel, who was in ill health, heard the news, she im mediately left her bed to go to Anne and she completely 1egained her health in the new excitement. John Payne, who ll be come the proud father, was so happy he began sending his wifehourly telegrams suggesting every name that came into his head f0r the christening of the heir. The first few days the names were all boys' names because, of course, he wanted a son. Slowly, he realized it might be, a girl. Ever since, John's names _oi the feminine gender, all extremely exotic, have amused Anne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.