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Show The Little Hut' Will Rock the House With Laughter " I I I lltM, II II i'l n f . This witty and ultra-sophisticated spoof on the vagaries of love and the incredible ingenuity in which one man proposes to make off with another man's wife in a preposterously funny but strictly above-board "share the spoils" agreement, had them laughing on Broadway before being be-ing adapted to the screen by F. Hugh Herbert, who also produced the film with Mark Robson for M-G-M release. Herbert is the author of that previous memorable memor-able comedy gem, - "The Moon 1 Blue," and few are his equal in the realization of hilarious dialogue dia-logue and rib-tickling situations. The situation in "The Little Hut" is that of three eminently r-e-s-p-e-c-t-a-b-l-e and aristocratic aristo-cratic Britishers. They are Susan Ashlow (Ava Gardner), who, neglected by her too-often-absent business tycoon husband, Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), turns to career diplomat Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven), the man she almost married and who is still in love with her. It is when the trio is shipwrecked shipwreck-ed on a tropical desert island that the complications set in. The practical and deft-handed Philip sets out to make the mall comfortable com-fortable until they can be rescued. res-cued. He builds a big hut for himself and Susan and a little neighboring hut for Henry. But Henry doesn't like being alone in the little hut. Susan, plotting to make the qomplacent husband who takes her for granted jealous, I agrees to pretend that she and Henry have been deceiving him for years. The outcome of this de-ccption de-ccption temporarily makes Susan a woman once again freo to choose a new husband. Does this rewarding to look at, whether in the stunning formal clothes or informal negligees and nightgowns night-gowns whipped up for her by Christian Dior for scenes laid in London or in the improvised grass skirts and sunsuits which become part of her costumes on the desert island. In the second place, she has never been more warmly appealing or more de-Ucoiusly de-Ucoiusly funny. mean that Philip loses her Does Henry win her? Do they ever get off that island and out of these huts? You will have to see this riotous comedy yourself to find out the answers and to garner some of the loudest and lustiest laughs of your life. There are two things to be said of Ava Gardner in her role as the piquant Susan. In the first Place, she has never been more |