PREVIEW

The Cambridge Summer Theatre

Brattle Hall puts on blue jeans and a straw hat Monday evening when Louise Falk and John Huntington open the 1945 Cambridge Summer Theatre season with Noel Coward's comedy, "Blithe Spirit," starring Elissa Landi. The play, which ran on Broadway for so long, is scheduled to run for one week, through Saturday evening.

Director for the summer stock theatre will be Neil McFoe Skinner, who directed for the company in its first season in 1940. The group that first put "Dark of the Moon" and several other subsequent successes on the boards lists for its second week the Jacques Deval comedy, "Her Cardboard Lover," starring Diana Barrymore.

Other scheduled productions include "The Passionate Congressman," starting June 25; "My Sister Eileen," with Libby Holman, on July 2, "Winterset," featuring Vera Zorina, on July 9, and "Alice in Wonderland," beginning July 16.