The Seven Year Itch (by George Axelrod) bagged a batch of fine reviews on opening night. It possesses a lively popular theme. It is full of humorous, situations. It boasts an engaging leading man. What it lacks, unfortunately, is any real merit as a play.
The story concerns Richard Sherman, a married New Yorker whose wife is away for the summer. Married for seven years and on earth for almost 40, he has reached that half-wolfish, half-mousy point when the eye begins to wander but the ego to worry, when Caspar Milquetoast sounds an...