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uf -if JY7 i Section I The Miami News LJ jjUJ TV Adyicej Entertainment mnnnn I e) JHJS J0VU I XJ 6m Libraries will help you get ready for the holidays As the year grows toward its finish, less and less time remains for proper holiday planning. But relax, your neighborhood libraries are springing to the rescue. North Dade Regional Library, 2455 N.W. 183rd St. (Miami Gardens Drive), will be the scene of a demonstration of inexpensive ways to make wreaths, tree ornaments and table decorations for the holidays at 7 p.m.

tomorrow. Admission is free, but those who would like to attend need to call the library information desk at 625-6424 to register for the class beforehand. The Young Adult Department of West Dade Regional Library, 9445 Coral Way, is sponsoring a cooking demonstration there at 4 p.m. Thursday featuring complete directions on how to make a pumpkin cheesecake and a juicy, crumbly cranapple crisp dessert. Both should fit In nicely with your Thanksgiving menu.

Admission is free, and there will be a tasting session afterward. Call 553-1 134 for reservations. i An artful demonstration If you're interested in making a pretty gift for a friend, consider attending a demonstration on the technique of painting with pastels featuring Hialeah artist Donna Cannon at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Hialeah John F. Kennedy Library, 190 W.

49th Hialeah. Cannon's work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe, and some of her art is on display throughout November at the library. Admission is free: 821-2700. Religious lecture This week's "Spiritual Giants of the Past" series lecture, at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, is a talk titled "Deborah" by Ronald Cahana, assistant rabbi at Temple Emanu-EI, who will discuss that heroine of the victory over the Canaanites as a model for contemporary Jewish women.

i' Jr Hebrew lecture From 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, guest speaker Ef rat Afek, representative of the Department of Education and Culture of the World Zionist Organization and member of the staff of the Central Agency for Jewish Education, will present a lecture, in Hebrew, titled "The Ancient Synagogues in Israel." That program will inaugurate this year's Moadon Ivri-Hebrew Cultural Forum. Great film comedian gets rediscovered again A look at some books Rabbi Rami Shapiro will review two collections of Jewish folk tales, "Miriam's Tambourine" and "Elijah's Violin," at this week's Great Jewish Books Discussion Group at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. We've been teasing you by withholding information for dramatic effect.

If the three previous items seem related, that's because they're sponsored by the Central Agency for Jewish Education, they're being held in the auditorium of the Miami Beach Public Library, 2100 Collins Miami Beach, and admission to all three is free and open to the public. Call the agency offices at 576-4030 for further information. SCOTT EYMAN Mliml Nm Film Crlllc leanor Norris was beautiful, with the cat-eyed, come-hither look that would come to be -v yy 1 I if'' saying, "Do you think there would be anything wrong if and Buster finished it with we got married?" Everyone thought she was crazy. She was 21 and gorgeous. Marrying a 44-year-old ex-alcoholic comedian widely considered to be a has-been wasn't what a later, more cynical generation would call a good career move.

She did it anyway. They were married for 26 years, until Buster Keaton died of cancer in 1966. The story of that marriage, the career that supported it and the quietly driven man who had been christened Joseph Francis Keaton are the subjects of a three-hour PBS documentary to be broadcast from 9 to 11 p.m. Wednesday and from 9 to 10 p.m. Nov.

25 on Channel 2. "He and the films are still very popular in Europe," she said during a recent telephone "more so than here. At the end of his life, we were over there for things like the reissue of 'The and he couldn't believe the fuss that thou- Please see KEATON. 2C associated with Lauren Bacall. With all that, she wasn't looking for romance, she was just looking for someone to teach her bridge.

A friend told Norris that the man who knew more about bridge than anyone in Hollywood was named Buster Keaton. She knew who he was, which was more than most people in Hollywood did. By that time, the tail end of 1938, Keaton was working for $200 a week as a gag man at MGM, the studio where he had been making $3,000 a week 10 years earlier. Eleanor Norris had seen him at the MGM commissary, for she worked at the studio, too, as a dancer. A mutual friend introduced them at a card game at his house, and it was true.

He really did know a great deal about bridge. They got along well. One day in 1940, she started a sentence by Classic film Who was that face you glimpsed on a passing train? It was Laura, but she's only a dream, go the words to the song. The lovely face in the 1944 film, "Laura," was that of Gene Tierney, and a detective fell in love with her simply by gazing at her portrait on the wall when he was sent to investigate her apparent murder, but wait There's more to the murder-mystery plot an entire feature film's worth, starring Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Judith Anderson and Vincent Price in one of his early young, handsome person roles. See the classic film, which was directed by Otto Preminger, at 2 p.m.

tomorrow in the auditorium of the Kendall Library, 9101 S.W. 97th Ave. Chances are you'll leave believing in true love again and humming the title song. Admission is free. Call 279-052 1 for the complete picture.

John Eldridge What's happening with you? Tell us about it and we'll share it with our readers in this column. Write brief details about your event, including cost if any; add the time, date and address, plus your name and phone number. Mail it. 1 0 days in advance, to What's Happening, The Miami News. P.O.

Box 615, Miami 33152. SNIGLETS by Rich Hall Atsoclated Prn Eleanor Norris and Buster Keaton were 21 and 44 years old when they applied for their marriage license Railroad smokers fuming over changes MICHAEL WINERIP Ntw Vortt Tlm Hws svrvlca HUHPHREYS (mum' freez) n. (a useless sniglet) Those strange extra digits you find on push-button phones. doing more than anything. People have been smoking hundreds of years, and they're still living." "You got to go some way," Hoolahan said cheerfully.

"You always see these guys living to 100 on TV, and they say they smoked and took a drink," Celestine said. "What's there left to do?" McGrath said. Her two friends looked at her with raised eyebrows. "They certainly won't let us do that on the train," she said. "Besides, I'm too tired at the end of the day." ANOTHER VICTORY for nonsmokers? Arthur Levine can't stand it.

For 20 years, he has been enjoying his morning cigar on the Far Rockaway train, and now it's all in jeopardy. Little wcasefy nonsmokers. "They make you feel guilty," said Levine, a lawyer. "They make you feel unwanted. They come through the smoking car holding their noses." Even his daughter makes him feel guilty.

"Of course!" he said. People look at him like he's spoiled mayonnaise. For the first 107 years of the LIRR, riders could smoke in any car. Then, in 1911. a group of nonsmokers started moaning, and that year we had Pearl Harbor and half the LIRR cars were made nonsmoking.

Still, smokers had the edge: If there were an odd number of cars on a train, the extra one was a smoker. In 1971 smokers were cut to two cars per train, In 1983 to one in trains with fewer than 12 cars. Now, in a proposal to be considered Friday, the LIRR is seeking to end smoking on its five shortest branches. SMOKING CARS are so poorly ventilated that even many smokers refuse to use them. They're the dirtiest because there are no ashtrays.

Railroad officials fear smokers will set themselves on fire. As a result, there are often empty scats in smokers while people stand in nonsmokers. "I rode a smoker once," Carlos Caban said. "First thing you do when you get home, shower with your clothes on." "Unbelievable smoke," said Bill Cinnamond, a conductor, who gets stuck working the smoker because he has less seniority than his train mate. "Everyone's coughing it sounds like MacNamara's Band in the morning." While Metro-North leaders said they favor keeping the smoking status quo.

N.J. Transit has banned it altogether. Levine can't stand all the cocky nonsmokers running around taking deep breaths and acting like wholesome jerks. "A bunch of know-nothings jumping on the bandwagon," he said, lighting a fresh cigar at Penn Station. Said Margie Butler, a smoking secretary: "I'm Please see SMOKERS, 2C LONG BEACH, N.Y.

How many times will Blanche Celestine have to die a thousand deaths? "I'm dying now," she said. It's the maniac nonsmokers who are destroying her health. All Celestine asks is to be left alone during her daily commute to Manhattan to smoke in a smoking car on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). But Thursday morning she heard that the railroad was considering cutting the number of smoking cars in half, eliminating smoking altogether on her line, the Long Beach branch. "Upset?" Celestine said, taking a healthy drag to calm down.

"Of course. If I don't have a cigarette, I'm dying. I have nervous fits." She looked around the smoking car of the 7:29. "Half the people in this car are nonsmokers," she said. Little weasey nonsmokers.

"They do it on purpose, to fill up the seats. They try to fill this car up with nonsmokers so it won't be so smoky in here. I've had people ask me not to smoke in the smoking car!" "Oh, I've had that," said her scatmate, Monica Hoolahan, a two-pack-a-daver. "We've all had Barbara McGrath said. "I'm a little tired of these nonsmokers pushing their feelings on me," said Celestine, an insurance executive.

"I work hard. This is the one thing I enjoy I.