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SAINTS AND STRANGERS - George F. Willison-Reynal & Hitchcock...
From such original sources as Edward Winslow (the Pilgrim's chief spokesman) and Governor William Bradford, a Denver-born author and scholar named George Findlay Willison has pieced together a brisk history of the Plymouth colony which should go far toward answering questions like this one. His Saints and Strangers is a far cry from the textbook story. His Pilgrim Fathers are as inept a crew of pious pioneers as ever tackled a howling wilderness...
Constantly hungry on a daily ration (for the whole group) of one peck of meal from the ship's stores, always cold from exposure, many of them developed scurvy and pneumonia. The Pilgrims, claims Author Willison, blandly ignored the ship's doctor, Giles Heale. For medical advice they depended solely on one of their own members, Deacon Samuel Fuller. Result: almost every day somebody died. When at last the Mayflower sailed back to England, the harvest came in, and a gift of corn from Squanto increased the group ration by another peck of fresh meal. But the seven...
Packed with much unorthodox detail, Author Willison's book is one of the most readable histories of the Plymouth Colony's misfortunes...
...brown. But many of the best scenes and most of the real talent fall outside the local-color category and would fit well into any revue. Bob Henry proves himself a capable young comedian in two laughable acts. Estelle Stahl provides a couple of the better moments, and the Willison-Bates number, "What Noise Annoys an Oyster," is first-rate. With more attention to its own better examples, a generous use of the stage hook on some of its amateurish singing and acting, the Players' Theatre should get many a bleat at Boston before shearing time in the spring...