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...film rendition of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," now being shown at the Metropolitan Theatre, the whimsical flavor of the Alice Hegan Rice classic has been brought to the screen intact. It is a story of life in a small Ohio town during the later buggy and moustache cup period, only a few decades removed in time, but centuries away in spirit. The peg-top trousers and bombazine gowns, the town drunkard and the cruel banker, even the glorious extravaganza at the local "opera house" all bespeak that happy epoch before the pestilence known as Radio had standardized...
...Wiggs family, waiting patiently for Father Wiggs to return gold-laden from the Klondike, occupies a mean little hovel in the cabbage patch. Mrs. Wiggs takes in washing, Billy Wiggs sells wood, and with the other little Wiggs, they receive each buffet of fate with cheerful fortitude. When such blessings as a decrepit, sway-backed horse, or perhaps a Thanksgiving basket from the beautiful benefactress on the hill, happen to come along, the Wiggs star has ascended to heights unknown. But despite the kindness of a newspaper editor (Kent Taylor) and his sweetheart (Evelyn Venable) the cough of little Jimmy...
...lured toward the altar by the combined agencies of a matrimonial society and the succulent cooking of Mrs. Wiggs. In a picture of this type, plot means little, atmosphere and sincere portrayal of character mean everything, and in these latter respects "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" may lay claim to excellence...
...Gascon grandfather's most significant journey was to London (TIME, July 16). There M. Barthou did more than patch up a quarrel which he had had earlier in the year at Geneva with Sir John Simon. He convinced Leader of the British Conservative (majority) Party Stanley Baldwin that the Nazi Reich is a real menace to the peace of Europe. It was after M. Barthou's visit that M. Baldwin startled the world by declaring for His Majesty's Government that the British frontier is now on the Rhine...
...Fiume, Italy, Vacationist Zorca Prince opened a letter from her mother, laughed at what she read, plunged into the sea. Her mother had dreamed that if Zorca went swimming a shark would kill her. Far offshore fishermen heard a scream, found a little patch of blood-stained water but no trace of Vacationist Zorca Prince...