Halloween Night?
Did children actually set street fires, throw flour in peoples' faces, and tell them that
they "hate them" in 1903???
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Most likely so. First off, the kids are having a bonfire, very popular then. As for the flour in the face stuff, the script was based upon Sally Benson's childhood in St. Louis, so it's very possible this was based on real events.
As for Agnes and Tootie throwing the stuffed lady onto the train tracks, that was most likely from the scriptwriters. Either way, that was a terrible thing they did, and both girls should've been punished, especially Tootie, who concocted that whole lie about John Truett.
Thanks for the response, but I don't remember them throwing a stuffed lady onto the train track. When did that occur?
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It happens off camera. Just after Rose returns with ice cream, they all hear Tootie screaming. They carry her in, still in her Halloween costume. She has a cut lip and tells her mother, Rose and Esther that John Truett hit her. Later, Agnes rushes home and excitedly informs Tootie that police were at the trolley site, as the motorman believed the that the stuffed dress was a lady. It's an odd scene, and odder still that Anna doesn't really punish the girls.
In the next scene, the father returns home to announce they are moving to New York.
Hmmm. Don't remember that scene.
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No offense, but were you sort of multi-tasking while watching the film? Or has it just been decades since you watched it? I only ask because, frankly, the scenes described are impossible to "miss" if one is seated, viewing the film, start to finish.
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No I was not, but it's been at least six months since I've seen it. I guess those scenes didn't make that much
of an impression on me.
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