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the Molly Maguires live
by JUDIE ANDREWS
Two years ago in Hazleton,
cameras began rolling for a
motion picture called “The
Molly MacGuires' filmed by
Paramount studios. The world
premiere performance of that
movie will be shown at the
Centre and Strand Theaters in
Scranton, and the Paramount
Theater in Wilkes-Barre, Jan.
27 at 8 p.m.
The benefit performance is
sponsored by the Kiwanis Clubs
of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre
for the United Cerebral Palsy
of Lackawanna County.
Stars of the Molly MacGuires
will attend the festivities which
will get underway at the Hilton
Inn at 6:30 p.m. They will greet
patrons of the film benefit dur-
ing the cocktail party which
was donated by owner George
Carros, who also helped to se-
cure the world premiere per-
formance for this area. Some of
the stars who are expected to
attend the cocktail party are
Sean Connery, Malachy Mec-
Court, Bob Bernstein, Frances
Hefflin, and Richard Harris.
During the filming of the
movie in May, 1968, this re-
porter was granted an exclusive
interview with Mr. Harris. Here
is how it went between '‘takes’
at Paramount studios in Hazle-
ton.
Q. What was your first re-
action to the script and being
asked to play McPharlan?
A. I was very much interested
in the Molly MacGuires and I
thought their political issues
were good, although I do not
agree with the way they tried to
handle them.
Q. Do you enjoy your part in
the movie and have you ever
played the role of a detective
before?
visitors
lists area
projects
The Home and School ‘Visitor
Project, ®ponsongéd by: the Lu-
‘zerne County Board of School
Directors, has funding available
to help develop social services
in the local and county school
systems in Region M (Luzerne,
Lackawanna, Wayne, Wyoming,
and Susquehanna Counties).
This will be accomplished by
means of an internship program
which will be instituted in the
1970 spring semester beginning
Jan. 26. All chief school admini-
strators of local and county
school systems have been noti-
fied of the internship program.
Interns will be involved in this
training program and the Home
and School Visitor Project staff
will render assistance in the
development of the services in
the schools.
The Home and School Visitor
Project is an innovative pro-
gram to train home and school
visitors for Region M. This
spring tuition-free, graduate
level courses will again be of-
fered through Wilkes College,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., for partici-
pants in the project. These
courses may be used to meet
the state regulations for certifi-
cation as a home and school
visitor. The program is also de-
signed to upgrade personnel
presently functioning as home
and school visitors and is open
to individuals in education and
social welfare agencies.
Registration for the courses to
be offered by the Home and
School Visitor Project, spon-
sored by the Luzerne County
Board of School Directors, con-
tinues this week (Jan. 19-23) at
the Project Office, 1016 IBE
Building, Wilkes-Barre, from
10 a.m., to 4 p.m. Registrations
will also be accepted on Wednes-
day, Jan. 21, Thursday, Jan. 22,
and Friday, Jan. 23, from 6 p.m.
to 9 p.m., on the second floor. of
Chase Hall, Wilkes College.
The following courses are
' being offered in the 1970 spring
semester: education 590, school
law (Monday); education 571;
introduction to casework (Tues-
day); education 512, social
foundations of education
(Wednesday; psychology 530,
group dynamics (Wednesday) ;
psychology 321, child psychology
(Thursday); and education
577-8, practicum in home and
school visitor service (to be
arranged).
All classes will meet from
6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., in Chase
Hall, Wilkes College, Wilkes-
Barre. The courses will be
taught by Drs. William J. Smo-
dic, Edward C. Scanlon, and
Blossom Teppar.
The promotion material for The Molly Maguires has a coal
miner with shovel. The Scranton premiere of The Molly Ma-
guires is to benefit United Cerebral Palsy. The movie will be
at the Strand and Center Theatres Jan. 27, a Tuesday, at 8:30
p-m.
A. No, I've never played a de-
tective before, and I wouldn't be
doing the part if I didn't enjoy
it. To date I've been a poor
judge of screen roles, but I'm
pleased and optimistic about
this one.
Q. Do you think this movie
will interest teen-agers, and will
it have an influence on us?
A. Yes, I think they will enjoy
it and find it interesting. It may
have an influence on you be-
cause teen-agers today are more
involved in politics.
Q. Did you find it strange to
come to such an out-of-the-way
place to film the Molly Mac-
Guires?
A. No, not really. I grew up in
a small town like Hazleton
(Limerick, Ireland), and I' feel
it is better to film the movie
where the events actually took
place.
Q. How long do you plan to
be in the area filming the Molly
MacGuires? :
A. I plan to be here until
July (1968) after which I go to
England to produce the film
Hamlet for BBC-TV.
To add to the fun and pleasure
of the premiere, movie goers
will have music which includes
melodies sung by miners during
the Molly MacGuire era. At the
Hilton Inn will be accordianist
Gerry Regni and pianist Jerry
Davis.
Movie goers at the Strand and
Center Theaters will be greeted
by the music of Tom Boyer at
the organ, and the Irish Bal-
ladeers. All the musicians are
donating their time to the Ki-
wanis.
Cochairmen for the event are
Robert A. Sproul, Kiwanis Club
president, and attorney Edwin
Utan, U.C.P. executive board,
with Mayor Eugene Peters and
Judge Edwin Kosik serving as
honorary cochairmen.
Book Review
by
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about Fraltam:
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
OR THE CHILDREN’S
CRUSADE
As a prisoner of war of the
Germans, Kurt Vonnegut lived
through the Allied fire-bomb
destruction of the city of
Dresden and for the next 23
years tried to write a book
about what it meant to have
been present when 135,000
men, women and children
died in a single night. ‘‘Slaugh-
ter-house-Five'’, the final
product of his effort, makes
it plain why it took him so
long. With this book he has
aimed at nothing less than
the complete destruction of
every shred of comfort con-
tained in the phrase, ‘‘these
things happen in war.”
Billy Pilgrim, trained to be
an army chaplain’s assistant,
arrives in Luxumbourg at the
height of the Battle of the
Bulge and is captured by
the Germans before he has
even met the chaplain he
was sent to assist. He is
taken first to one prison
camp and then to another in
Dresden where he and his
fellow-prisoners are housed
in an abandoned cement-
block slaughterhouse. Because,
at the sound of the air-raid
siren, the prisoners are taken
by their guards to a meat
locker hollowed out of the
rock beneath the slaughter-
house, Billy survives the fire-
bombing of the city on the
night of Feb. 13, 1945 and
when the war is over he
goes home to Ilium, N.Y.
But, though he has. done his
‘bit’, and though he marries
a rich girl, fathers two chil-
dren, and becomes a successful
optometrist, he doesn't live
happily ever after. He often
finds himself weeping uncon-
trollably for no apparent
reason; he keeps getting un-
stuck in time and travelling
back and forth between Earth
and the planet Tralfamadore;
and the only ‘happiness he
finds is on Tralfamadore in
the arms of an Earthling movie
star named Montana Wild-
hack. !
JAN. 22. 1970
Science fiction? In a sense,
ves, of course. But in another
sense the book is all too
literally true to life.- That
Billy’s fellow-prisoner is ar-
rested after Dresden is liber-
ated by the Allies, and sub-
sequently shot, for the crime
of taking a teapot from the
ruins of the city as _a mo-
mento of the time he spent
there is unfortunately, quite
credible; (besides, Vonnegut
assures us that it happened).
That ‘Billy’s: son, Robert, a
boy who flunked out of high
school, was drinking heavily
at the age of 16, and, while
still a lad, was arrested for
tipping over gravestones in a
Catholic cemetary, is, upon
joining the Green Berets,
considered to have ‘‘straign-
tened out’’ also makes ‘Earth
sense.”” That high in the sky
over Dresden American pilots,
thinking they are acting
against evil, drop bombs which
light a firestorm so devastat-
ing that everything organic
in the city is consumed is,
as we all know, the sort of
thing that happens in war.
After the war, Billy's daugh-
ter, Barbara, worries when
BETTY SCHECHTER
babble
dora stethints
he’s crazy. But the reader
cannot help but wonder who
is crazier: Billy who, unable
to contemplate the reality he
has seen, flees this world for
another; or Barbara and all
the other ‘‘sane’’ people who
manage to come to terms
with the enormities of war.
Vonnegut wields the power-
ful weapons of satire, irony and
humor deftly in ' his battle
to deprive of us of the balm
for our consciences we are
used to finding in ‘‘these
things happen in war.”
Though his subject is grim we
read on, entertained and, often,
actually amused. Though his
Everyman, Billy, is a stumble-
bum who sways and finally
falls in whatever direction the
winds of conformity are blow-
ing, we recognize a part of
ourselves in him and like
him. Whether or not Von-
negut accomplishes his
objective each reader must
decide for himself. This reader,
however, is finding it much
harder than ever to accept
the excuses that have been
made for the recent massacre
at Song My.
Marine Corps lists
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The Marine Corps announced
today a program designed to
allow high school seniors the
opportunity to enlist now and
delay going to recruit training
until after graduation.
The new policy allows seniors
up to 180-day’s delay from date
of enlistment, until the time
they report for active duty.
Previously, the Marine Corps
offered only 120-day’s delay in
their enlistment program.
Marine officials said the
additional time between cnlist-
ment and reporting for training
means high school seniors will
have greager flexibility in plan-
ning personal requirements he-
tween now and graduation.
Although seniors signing up
under the progrem receive no
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