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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6315, 16 September 1907, Page 5

Who has. not read "Mrs Wiggs, of tho Cabbage Patch?" It will b© interesting news, that the ?play founded on the well-known book is likely to com© to Australia and New Zealand shortly, , os it has been offered to Mr Edwin’ Geaoh. The piece is one of the successes of the present season in London, for it has been runing there since May last, at 1 Terry's Theatre, and appears likely to continue to amuse crowded audience® for. an indefinite period. Its record in the’ United States, extends' over four years; but when it was proposed to take the'play to London, Mrs Madge Carr Cook,’ who appears! as. Mrs Wiggs, thought it "sheer madness" ,to talk of such a'thing, as' it was far too local to interest Londoners. This prediction proved- quite erroneous—a circumstance which merely shows,- like many others in the history of the stage,- how difficult it is to tell whether the public will like or dislike a play. The scenes outside Terry's in the early history of the London run .wore, described, as "extra- 1 ordinary," people waiting nightly in long queues; and, at latest advices, the piece was still prospering, though Mr Gaston Mayer was searching-for another theatre for it, because of certain contracts previously;booked for Terry's. Its London success; has been attributed by the "Tribune" to its "fresh clean, homely humour, with a learon of kitchen philosophy." The ; offer to Mv Geach includes, an English company to ; come out to play "Mrs Wiggs" in this part of the world; and it is probable that the negotiations will • be completed shortly., |