ENTERTAINMENTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2368, 8 December 1908, Page 4

ENTERTAINMENTS.

■ •'•MRS. MICGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH.” The specially selected Australian companv representing “Mrs. Wiggs of the ’Cabbage Patch,” under the direction of-J. C. 'Williamson, comes to Gisborne op Thursday and Friday next, and will produce their successful play with all the completeness and attention to detail customary with this management, at His Majesty’s Theatre. To see the delightful comedy of quaint Louisville life, with its odd characters, its ever-bubbling humor and under-current of pathos, is as excellent as.a 5 tonic. It uwrarcly that any play has so many tffes of humorous characters with none of them ‘‘stagey” or overdrawn. The overresourceful Mrs. Wiggs, equal to any occasion, and with a heart of overwhelming proportions, is one of the, most lovable and life-like characterisations in the history of the American drama. Her quaint philisopliy is without parallel. Her supreme optimism is a tonic. Her humor is Mlio funnier because of its spontaneity and her own utter unconsciousness of it. Now and then, the miseries of her surroundings excites pity, but the tears of sympathy quickly give way to tears of mirth. She is a philosopher. the force of whose teaching depends not upon her diction but in tbo true noble sentiment which inspires them. Every other character in the Cabbage Patch is true to life. Anyone who has evinced the least interest in his fellow-men has seen just such persons' as Mrs, Wiggs,' Lovcy Mary, Miss Hazy, Miss Lucy, Mrs. Eiehorn, Mrs. Schultz, Mr. Stubhins, Mr. Boh —in fact, all the rest who figure in x Mrs. Alice Hegan. Rice’s charming books and tho dramatisation of the same by Mrs. Anne Crawford Flexner. Mrs. Rice has given in the delightful character creation of Mrs. "Wiggs a unique personality that will stand comparison in literature with the best that Charles Dickens has done! The box plan is now open at Miller’s.