A POPULAR WRITER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1479, 29 June 1912, Page 13

A POPULAR WRITER.

The "Washington Post" reports a dinner party given, bv President Taft at the White House, with. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Kiggs as. the principal guosts. Mrs. Riggs's (Kitto Douglas Wiggiu's) play, "Rebecca, of Sunnybrook Farm," was being presented that week at a Washington -.theatre; and after tho dinner tho President and his' party attended the performance. At the end of tho third act the house, having recognised Mrs. Eiggs, raised an enthusiastic demonstration, and called insistently for a speech. President Taft rose , and presented Mrs. Risks to the audience, who greeted her with tumultuous applause that continued until, for a socoml timo, tho President got up and presented her _to them. No living I author in America is.moro popular in her I books, or enjoys a wider personal popularity than Kate Douglas ' Wiggin.

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