Word: roussin
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...unlike Coward, author Andre Roussin is no master of sustained dialogue, so the humor comes in quick thrusts and two line jokes. Many of the laughs derive from wryly incongruous lines in the accent and style made familiar to America by Ealing Studios. In the present case, Henry first stuns Philip with the news that Susan has been keeping open house in her bedroom for the past six years, then says to the ashen cuckold in clipped syllables, "I hope you're not upset, old boy." Now, there obviously can be only so much of that particular type of nonsense...
Nina (adapted by Samuel Taylor from a play by Andre Roussin) created something of a ruckus before reaching Broadway. Gloria Swanson, who plays the title role, snarled publicly at Gregory Ratoff's direction, sneered at the play and threatened to quit. On Broadway the play itself should cause much less stir. It can best be described as very French in plot, and not nearly French enough in manner...
Take a basically funny situation, put in the first act of a play, discuss it for an hour and forty minutes, and you have the substance of the new play at the Shubert, a French farce comedy, written by Andre Roussin, and adapted for America by Samuel Taylor...