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...history's most fascinating lap dissolves happened in 1620 when the Pilgrims on the good ship Mayflower faded out at Plymouth, England, and appeared 96 days later, anchored off what was to be Plymouth, Mass. Nearly two years ago Schary set M-G-M Scripter Helen Deutsch to digging into all the facts and legends about the Pilgrims' mysterious voyage. The result, Plymouth Adventure, was finally on film last week...
...voyagers are as rowdy a band of adventurers and vagabonds as ever set sail. Aboard is a young cooper named John Alden (played by Van Johnson), who keeps the passengers' whisky and beer barrels in repair. Captain Myles Standish is below-decks most of the time; Researcher Deutsch decided that Standish was already married and probably not courting Priscilla Mullins...
...Pilgrims' transatlantic high jinks, may not be absolutely factual history, but Producer Schary hopes the film will be "a contribution to the American idea . . ." In Massachusetts, Henry Hornblower, president of Plimoth Plantation, Inc., a research group consulted by Scripter Deutsch, does not yet know the worst. "I suppose," says he, "that the movie will show Priscilla spinning. There is no evidence that a spinning wheel was brought over on the Mayflower...
Some of the teachers will be permanent members of the college. Others will be borrowed from the university, and still others (e.g., Anthropologist Margaret Mead, Novelist-Poet Babette Deutsch) will be guest professors. Wherever their professors come from, the college's 10,000 adult students may be sure of one thing: they will be getting as sound an education as any undergraduate could hope for. It will, says Louis Hacker, be "formal education. We won't teach them how to repair their radios. And if they want to learn about soap sculpture, they'll just have...
EBERHARD P. DEUTSCH...