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Plymouth Adventure (MGM) Historians are hazy as to exactly what happened aboard the Mayflower between the time it set sail from Plymouth, England on Sept. 16. 1620, and the time it landed 66 days later at Provincetown, Mass. MGM, attempting to fill in the historical gap, has drawn on what studio publicists call new, revealing research as well as on Ernest Gebler's imaginative 1950 novel and on some pure invention by Screenwriter Helen Deutsch. The resulting movie pictures the Atlantic crossing of the Pilgrim Fathers as a combination of storms above deck and stormy passions below deck...
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Died. J. Edward Bromberg, 46, veteran character actor, who was brought to the U.S. from Hungary at the age of two, worked as a silk salesman before getting a start in the Provincetown Theatre, appeared in numerous plays written by his friend, Clifford Odets (see above), got good notices from the critics for his parts in Men in White and The Royal Family, bad notices from the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to say whether he was or was not a Communist; of a heart ailment; in London, where he was playing an undertaker in The Biggest Thief...
Just two and a half hours from South Station stretches Cape Cod, a hundred and twenty miles of vacationland dotted with over ten summer stock companies. From the groups at Falmouth and Dennis with a star on the boards every week, to the groups of "hopefuls" at Provincetown and Chatham, one finds a wide assortment of summer theatre entertainment...
...Provincetown Players gained renown in the theatre world by introducing Eugene O'Neil's earlier plays such as the "Hairy Ape" and "Anna Christle." Their Playhouse was built on a wharf and the sound of the water splashing on the floor below the seat created an excellent atmosphere for O'Neil's drama of the sea. The Players of that era are gone, but their Playhouse remains with a group of young talented actors and actresses. This weekend at the Playhouse Arthur Miller's modern adaptation of Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" is billed...