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(Paramount) Claudette Colbert as the Puritan maid and Fred MacMurray as her dashing Cavalier lover from Virginia fhis film of Puritan days in the little New England village of Salem, Massachusetts, is based on fact, and the director and his staff spent many months of research work. The British Museum supplied two ancient songs, a sea chanty of 1530, and a ballad written about 1630, “ Bid Me But Live," which is sung by Fred MacMurray. A sermon preached in the film by Ivan Simpson was taken almost wholly from a rare collection by the Reverend Deodat Lawson, who, with Reverend Samuel Parris who preaci.zd the original, served at Salem Village. There were, in Puritan days, two Salems, Salem Town on the coast, and Salem Village, some seven miles inland, which to-day is called Danvers. From the Essex Museum in Salem many pictures and plans Were obtained of the Puritan houses, and reproductions of their household and farming goods. Ann Goode (Bonita Granville ) and her little sister Nabby (Virginia Weidler). It is Ann who is re- sponsible for starting an outery against witchcraft in Salem Village, and Barbara (Claudette Colbert), defending an innocent old woman, is herself accused. T Hub a ( Madame Sul-te-wan) and Abigail Goode (Beulah Bondi), Tiluba firmly believes in witchcraft, and, accused by Ann through spite of bewitching her, is seized and treated mercilessly until she “ con f esses.” Her confession implicates many innocent people who are hanged with her. 83