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A Makes A Difference THE ALABAMA JOURNAL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1983 State Premiere Monday Film Depicts Life In Delta Translated Works Of Scott Fitzgerald Donated To Auburn AUBURN (UPI) A collection of rare F. Scott Fitzgerald works translated into foreign languages will be on display at Aubum University this month, according to Auburn officials. r- ntr r' The collection of more than 80 editions of Fitzgerald's writings were donated to the university in October by Scottie Fitzgerald Smith of Montgomery, the daughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Mrs.

Smith also gave the library's special collections section a copy of her book, "The Romantic Egoists." Gene Gieger, special i v- 1 collections librarian, said the books are not extremely valuable monetarily, but are unique. "It was a marvelous Mrs. Smith, AU's Bill Highfill Local cinema buffs used to patiently awaiting the arrival of a movie after a New York premiere will appreciate this twist on that schedule: Monday night they will be able to view a film before New Yorkers. The occasion marks several firsts for the Capri Community Film Society, which is presenting the Alabama premiere of the documentary film, "Mississippi Triangle." The Monday showing at the Capri Theater represents its first premiere, first feature-length documentary and the first personal appearance by a producer-director. Independent 'filmmaker Christine Choy will speak and meet members of the audience before and after the 7:30 p.m.

showing. "Documentaries are among the several film types the Capri Community Film Society has pledged to bring to Montgomery audiences, and 'Mississipi Triangle' should be an excellent beginning toward that goal," said society president Randall Williams. The film, whose world premiere will be Sunday in Clarksdale, is set in the Mississippi Delta and depicts the intertwining of the lives of Chinese, blacks and whites. Ms. Choy will speak at 7 p.m., and the 110-minute color film will begin at 7:30.

A reception will follow the movie. Admission, including the reception, is S4 for the general public and $2.50 for society members and students who present identification cards. Ms. Choy, who produced, directed and was the principal cinematographer for the film, was bom Chai Ming Huei in Shanghai, but is now an American citizen living in New York. She is among the most prominent Asian-American filmmakers in the United States.

During more than ten years in documentary production she has built such award-winning credits as "To Love, Honor and Obey," "Bittersweet Survival" and "Fei Tein Goddess In night." She received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1982 and the American Film Institute's Women Directors Fellowship. "Mississippi Triangle" was financed with a $160,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an $11,000 grant from the En- gift for us, especially because it was given by his daughter," Geiger said. "She thought enough of Auburn to give us these translations of her father's work." The set includes translations of many of Fitzgerald's short stories along with his major novels, "The Great Gatsby," "The Beautiful and the Damned," "This Side of Paradise" and "Tender is the Night." The books are translated into German, Italian, Spanish, French. Swedish, Japanese and Portugese, among others. Director Ms.

Choy Will Appear At Capri Theater Showing the film's co-directors. Worth Long. Long said "Mississipi Triangle" was not his first choice for film's title. His suggestion was "Even Chinese Get the Blues," but "Mississippi Triangle" won because it reflected the three cultural groups whose relationships make up the film's story. The Capri Community Film Society is a community-based membership organization created earlier this year when the Capri at 1045 E.

Fairview Ave. appeared on the verge of closing. The society leased the theater and has since been showing classics, foreign movies and children's films. dowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim fellowship. In the film, Mississippi Chinese talk about living for more than a century in the Delta, a region along the Mississippi River stretching from Vicksburg to Memphis.

The film takes viewers throughout the Delta from an enormous wedding reception in a convention center, to a Christian baptism for a Chinese baby to routine family life. Delta blues, gospel, country-western and spirituals performed by local people create a strong mood of history and culture, according to one of To Highlight For Children music at Eastmont Baptist Church. Girl Scouts will lead the salute to the flag, and they will be escorted by students from Lanier, Lee and Jeff Davis high schools A musical program will be presented by tne Wee People's Chorus of Eastmont Baptist Church. Carol Singing Tree Program A Christmas tree ceremony for children will be presented by Downtown Unlimited Sunday at 3 p.m. in front of Union Station.

Mayor and Mrs. Emory Folmar will welcome children to the "Wee People's" tree across from the Civic Center. The invocation will be given by Arnold Fuller, minister of Alabama People A 80-Year-Old Woman Goes To Class, 'Sure Enjoys' Learning To Read At Last i'4 1 Jf DM Standard Time Is 100 Years Old fern iii V- I This garden sundial from the first quarter of the 18th century is on display at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., as part of the exhibition, "Inventing Standard Time." The exhibition traces the development, introduction and acceptance of the standard time system, which is now 100 years old. At 80 years old, Louise Wilson is learning to read. She is one of 15 students, many of them senior citizens, in an adult class in the Birmingham suburb of Brighton.

The classwork should lead to the students receiving high school equivalency (GED) diplomas. The youngest member of the class is 17. Instructor Gwen Brown says Mrs. Wilson learns 10 to 15 new words each time the class meets. "I know she could have learned to read much earlier if someone had taken the time to teach her," Mrs.

Brown told United Press International. Mrs. Wilson said she was unable to have children, but was kept busy by the 11 she adopted and reared. "I didn't get to learn to read while I was young, but I'm sure enjoying it now," she said. "Ain't no need in saying you can't do something.

You got to try." Man Shuns Retirement It will be another 20 years before Jewett Filler retires, if 80-year-old man gets things his way. The Decatur resident has already retired twice at the age of 65 from an insurance company and at the age of 70 from Athens State College. But when Mutual Savings Life Insurance Co. asked him to head a special project he willingly went back and has been working ever since. "Someone at Mutual said, 'Mr.

Filler, you've retired more' than anyone I know. When are you going to retire again? "I said, 'When I get to be 100" said Filler. He had a heart attack When he was 75, but didn't let that slow him down. "Sometimes it takes a jolt like that to make you appreciate life," he said. Filler says he works six hours a day now and has no plans to stop.

"It's the best therapy in the world," he said. "It keeps my mind busy, and I'm not thinking, 'I wonder how my heart's Seeking The Big Break She's been in New York City six years and hasn't made the big time yet, but Claudia Anderson won't go home to Huntsville. yed Steelworkers Unemplo Mrs. Wilson, Center, Mrs. Brown, Left, Review Reading Lesson Reap Income From Movie man to be my awful wedded husband." "You never know what's going to happen," Mrs.

Couch said. "The idea is never get, the bride, or mother of the bride or the wedding party upset." Judges Go Way Back It seems natural for Richard L. Holmes and Sam Taylor to be bumping into each other occasionally in the Alabama Supreme Court law library in Montgomery. After the two state judges from Mobile used to meet the same way in the library at Murphy High School in the 1950s. Holmes was a sophomore, and Taylor was a senior.

"But we served on the student council at the same time," said Taylor. Today, he is a member of Things will have to get a lot worse before she quits. "I told God He'd have to slam that door pretty hard. Otherwise I'm going to keep going," she said. 6,000 Wedding Bells It's easy for Frances Couch to remain calm when confronted with almost any adversity.

That's happens after you've directed from 150 to 200 weddings a year for 35 years. Mrs. Couch has planned Anniston weddings that ranged from the simplest to extravagant affairs with 1,000 guests. She has directed 6,000 weddings since she and her late husband started a bridal registry at their jewelry store in 1948. Mrs.

Couch says there have been funny things to happen at the weddings. She will always remember the jittery bride who said, "I take this She says she hasn't faced the disappointment that will make her give up her plans to become an actress. "The more I'm here the more I learn that most of the people in this business that you think have been discovered overnight have been here working a good solid 10 years," she said. Miss Anderson, 26, has been in plays and acting classes since she was 4. She was in several plays at the University of Alabama and then was accepted at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.

She turned down an invitation to train at the academy a second year because she was ready to find fame. Instead, she has found hard work, most of it not as an actress. But she has been in coffee commercials and was a secretary in the movie "Prince of the City" and a nurse in the television soap "One Life to Live." BIRMINGHAM (UPI) Shooting portions of the $21 million movie "The River" in Alabama will mean a II million windfall to the Birmingham economy and temporary employment for 50 jobless steel-workers hired as extras. Universal Studios decided to spend three weeks in Birmingham shooting a portion of movie, which stars Australian actor Mel Gibson as a farmer struggling to earn enough money to keep his land. Filming began Monday for the movie, which is scheduled for release next summer.

Larry Hyde, 29, laid off after working six years at Alabama Byproducts answered a call for extras and is one of 50 laid off workers now playing parts in the Hyde and the others, including Gibson, play newly hired steel-workers who cross the picket lines and suffer the wrath of strikers. The extras began their acting debuts Saturday at McWane Cast Iron Pipe Co. in north Birmingham. "We were crossing the picket line with peopk raising Cain, throwing rocks, bricks and bottles at us," said Doyal Johnson, 48, who said he was laid off after working 16 years at Ingalls Steel. By Wednesday, the extras were working inside the steel mill as new employees, while McWane's real workers continued to make iron pipe in the background.

Blake Farley, 27, said the movie means an hour for him and the other extras. Phil Cole, executive director of the Alabama Film Commission in Mont-gomery said Birmingham will make about 11 million from the film. He said the commission will spend $190,000 this year trying to convince other studios to shoot in Alabama. r.Vi-.- www V4U1UI1W "LT- I peais, ana noimes ts a member of the state Court of Civil Appeals..