The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-10
mrs. W|GGss' TO .
SPEND A WEEK
At THE NEWARK
She and the Rest of the Cabbage
Patch Will Pay Theatregoers
Their Annual Visit.
ELFIE FAY AND "BIRDLAND"
THE PROCTOR FEATURES
Musical Comedy, Burlesque,
Melodrama and Pictures Given
at the Other Houses.

whats the name of this street?'
asked Lovey Mary of a small barefoot
ed girl.
"'Tain't no street" answered the
little girl gazing with undisguised
amusement at the strange looking girl.
This here is the Cabbage Patch"
Such was Lovey Mary's and Little
Tommy's introduction to the locale CT
MRS. Wigs OF the c bbase Patch"
the play %dramatized by Mrs. Anne
Crawford Flexner from the stories,
"Mrs. Wigs and "Lovey Mary" writ
ten by Mrs. Alice Hogan Rice. The
play m to the Newark Theatre next
week.
Almost everyone has real the books,
and therefore the st ~ Of the play
into which the two novels are tele-
scoped is more or less familiar. The
dramatization concerns itself solely
with life, and the brisk action is
crowded with types and homely pic
lures. Mrs. Wiggs didn't live tech
nically. and the play which exploits
her is regardful of heart interest rath-
er than OF mt chanical precision. The
entire action takes place in h Cab
bage Patch, portrayed exactly as de-
se~ibed by Mrs. Rice, who says:
ut vas not a real cabbage patch, but
queer neighborhood, where ram
shackle cottages played hop-scotch
ever the railroad track. There were no
streets, so when a new house was built,
The owner faced it any way his fancy
prompted. Mr.. Bagby's grocery, it is
true, conformed to convention, and pre-
0ented a solid front TO the railroad
track, but Mis- Hays cottage SHE'D
off likewise into the Wiggss yard, as
II it was afraid of Che big freight trains
that went laundering past so many
times a day, and Mrs. Schultz's front
room looked directly into the Eiclorn's
I kitchen. The Wigs house was the
most imposing in the neighborhood.
This was probably due to the fact that
it had two front doors and a tin roof.
One door was nailed up and the other
opened up outdoors. 1t vas the only
tin roof in the cabbage patch. Jim
and Billy la made 1t out of Old cans
which they had picked up on the COM
MONS"
The play opens in Mrs. Wiggs's cot
tagc with the wedding of Mis- Hay
to Mr.. Stubbins, who has been provided
by q matrimonial agency. Mis- HAY
has beer "sicked on TO matrimony by
Mrs. Wigs, who has aided In the win
ming of Mr.. Stubbins by artistic cook
ing, which is passed off as the brides
own. In the second act the exterior of
Mrs. Wiggs's shanty is shown. Lovey
Mary and Little Tommy are harassed
by the asylum authorities and the
father of the little fellow who clings
to his ~benefactors. Mrs. Wigs con-
ducts her famous Sunday-school, and
Mr.. Stubbins falls from grace and in
his drunken condition is shipped away
in a freight car. In the final act there
is the return of Mr.. Wigs, who turns
GU. to be the father of Little Tommy;
sof Mr.. Stubbins, who rehabilitates him
self n the justification of Lovey
Mary.
Blanche Chapman, who will appear
as the quaint. motherly Mrs. Wigs,
is said to be scoring the hit of her ca
reer In this part. Miss Vivian Ogden
appears as Mis- Hazy, the meek and
shiftIess neighbor Of Mrs. Wigs. Miss
Mary McManus impersonates Lovey
Mary; Miss Gladys Murry plays Mrs.
Eichorn and Anna Fields Mrs. Schultz,