Little Orphan Annie, A Depression-Era Gal

I live two blocks away from the oldest community theater in America, the Footlight Club of Jamaica Plain, Mass. The Footlight Club has performed every year since 1877. I went to their production of the musical Annie over the weekend. It was really good, with plenty of talented singers and actors. I was impressed, too, with the timeliness of the production. The musical is based on the Little Orphan Annie comic strip by Harold Gray, which was first published in 1924, just a few years before the G