The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 19, 1953

The Little Hut (adapted from Andre Roussin's play by Nancy Mitford) was a great hit in London, where it ran for three years. In traveling to Broadway, it has suffered a decided sea change; it has almost the look, in fact, of something that fell in the water.

The play has to do with a husband, his wife and her lover (Roland Culver, Anne Vernon, Colin Gordon) shipwrecked on a tropical island. For impudent light comedy, there could be no brighter situation to start off with, and no tougher one to follow up. The...

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