Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1904 — MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH. [ARTICLE]

MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH.

The Chicago Daily News’ declaration that “ ‘Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch’ is a play for all the world —saints and sinners, old and young” would seem to be amply confirmed by the laughing hit the comedy has made at the Grand Opera House in Chicago. To judge from the incessant laughter and applause which greets the various scenes of this odd play, from the rise of the curtain on the picturesquely poverty-stricken interior of Mrs. Wiggs’ house, there would seem to be no exaggeration in any of the multifarious compliments paid to it by the press of Chicago. Seldom has a dramatic presentation of quaint types provoked such spontaneous mirthfulness as is invariably the condition of the spectators who make this theatrically conducted tour to the now famous Cabbage Patch by the footlight route of the Liebler & Co., dramatization of Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice’s amusing stories.