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(Right) Betty Garde, who is Mrs. W. on the air and who posed for the other picture, too, is smart and sophisticated in real life, and knows how to dress.
(Below) The brave and patient Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, familiar in fiction and on the NBC serial, is lovable and good, but a dowdy dresser.
MBS. GOES TO TOWN
BY WENDY LEE
Dress carefully and cleverly and you'll never be a Mrs. W.
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YOU are all familiar with Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, the famous character created for fiction by Alice Hegan Rice, and five times weekly you hear her brought to life over the NBC network by that versatile young actress, Betty Garde. As you listen in sympathetically to the trials and tribulations of Mrs. Wiggs, the long-suffering, patient woman who lives way out in the country, constantly beset by the problems of her no-account husband and her numerous offspring, you get a definite impression of what Mrs. Wiggs must look like, and in your mind's eye she probably resembles the humble creature you see here, clad in a nondescript dress and drab, black shawl, her bonnet decidedly not of this century.
Lovable? Of course she is! You can see from her eyes, from her expression, that she's kind and good, that she'd gladly give you anything in the world — if she had anything. But you'd never dream of saying that poor Mrs. Wiggs was anything but downright dowdy, no matter how lovable !
Now take a good look at the other picture. Sounds like a good one for Bob Ripley, but — believe it or not — the smart young sophisticate, elegantly gowned and wearing the ostrich evening coat, and the dowdy Mrs. Wiggs are one and the same person! There you have Mrs. W. as you know her, and as she is in real life, a gay and charming young person — one Betty Garde.
When we say, "Mrs. Wiggs Goes to Town," we really mean it, because when Betty is not throwing herself wholeheartedly into her part as the country-bred Mrs. Wiggs, or into any of the other roles she portrays — she's Belle of the Lorenzo Jones series, acts with Gang Busters and on Kate Smith's hour, to name a couple — she's the perfect example of the modern urban young woman, gay, goodhumored and well-dressed. She likes the country for week-ends and vacations, for her favorite sport is swimming, but she wouldn't be happy if she didn't spend most of her (Continued on page 77)