Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been urging terrorist action in Nairobi itself, which in the first days of the emergency was relatively safe. In the capital's stinking slums, 100,000 Kikuyu (most of them not Mau Mau) sleep where they can. rocking their babies in sacks that are festooned around mud-hut walls. Fortnight ago, Mau Mau sent a message to these teeming slums: "Africans will stop using mzungu [white-owned] buses, and will stop smoking cigarettes." For emphasis, they strangled one bus-using, cigarette-smoking Kikuyu and tossed his body into the Nairobi River. Overnight, every Negro in the capital, from government...
What saves Ratoons' mechanical plot is Novelist Rooke's sense of scene. Among the book's vivid ones: a sweaty Hindu midwife charging across a hut head down and butting her patient to speed delivery; a band of Zulus chanting a hymn of hate for Hindus: "Who is it that takes our land? The little coolie, the skeleton. Who is this rat that walks like a lion amongst the Zulus? . . . Rise, O Zulus, kill...
...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...
...tropical island. For impudent light comedy, there could be no brighter situation to start off with, and no tougher one to follow up. The moves may be almost as clearly indicated as in chess,, but as in chess there can be tedious waits between them. In The Little Hut, first the bland British husband is carefully told what goes on, then the obliging wife is openly shared. The lover, in the process, turns as growlsome as a husband, the husband grows gay as a lark; and in due course, a third gentleman appears and enters the lists (and the hut...
...comedy of manners lurches hilariously toward madness. The play remains part of a fashionable tradition which slices its amusement as paper-thin as its sandwiches, and-for success-demands a special type of flawless acting. In London, with Robert Morley, Joan Tetzel and David Tomlinson, The Little Hut presumably had it; but on Broadway an uninspired cast makes for unamusing castaways...