| Show C ft tag MRS WIGGS FAMILIAR rA FIGURE IN IM literature IN PARAMOUNT PICTURE I 1 although alice hegan rice wrote her immortal american classic mrs bigga of the cabbage path which in the raia paia mount version based on oil the play by mrs airs rice and anne crawford Craw tord flexner cornea to the utopia the litre sunday monday alunday and tuesday ay march 10 11 12 more than thirty years ago the people and 1 the circumstances which it depicts are still as universally true today as they were then or will ue e two hundred years hence mrs rice in the book which has delighted millions of readers throughout the world treated of the people who are sometimes some timea spoken of 0 as tho the salt of the I 1 earth and the backbone of the nation poor people but honest and thrifty and people whose innate good humor courage essential earthliness and homespun philosophy find their counterparts in all nations and at all times limes I 1 |