Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1904 — Last Times of “Mrs. Wiggs.” [ARTICLE]

Last Times of “Mrs. Wiggs.”

Chicago playgoers are flocking in great numbers to the Grand Opera House to see “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” which is now in its fifth recoad-breaking week at that place of amusement. Only three weeks more remain of the extraordinary season and then the play aDd the excellent company will go to New York to begin an extended run at the Savory Theatre. With the end of the engagement is Bight it is assured that the Grand will be unable to accommodate the crowds who will wish to see “Mrs. Wiggs” and to hear her homely epigrams and terse sermons to the amnsing people of the Cabbage Patch. An event this week will be the celebration of the fiftieth performance on Wednesday evening, August 17. In honor of this occasion the management will distribute to the audience the most tasteful and handsome souvenirs seen in a long time They are to be hard wood placques with brass centers upon which are inscribed one of Mrs. Wiggs’ pithy aphorisms and a picture of Mrs. Madge Carr Cook in the title character. This will be the first important souvenir night of the season in Chicago.