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"yy i The weather o2 EntertainmentArts Readings for Thursday, January 20, 1977 Minneapolis Tribune Jan. 21, 1977 HEATINO UNITS AS OF January It, U77. H.allng unlti ara used In atllmatlng tual consumption. Tne dally ligur. reflects lha degraes by which avar.g.

lemparalurat tell balow .5, the point al which artificial heat It generally considered necettarv. Cumul.iivt flguret report healing unlit tince July 1. Dally Healing unilt, .5. Same dale last year, 41. Normal, 54.

Season total, 4757. Seaton total on same date last year 3(33. Normal season total 4042. MINNAIOLU RIADINOSi Humidity tt 6 p.m. pel.

Prtclpll.ll.il 24 hour tndlna 6 p.m. .01 Inchas. Tolal Jin. I lo dala it Inclwt. tMwf.ll 34 Hours tndlna a p.m.

.2 lnchs. Um rlsts 7:44 a.m., sat MS p.m. Moon phau Nw. Rlsas 1:35 p.m. Sell 7:57 p.m.

COMPARATIVE TIMPIRATURIS: High 25 at 1 p.m. Low al 12:15 a.m. Year ago high low -11. All-tlmt high (or January JO, 52 In IWt. All-llmt low lor Jan.

20, -24 In W62 and 1970. Inauguril concert had galaxy of stars Thursday's temperatures: 1 2 3 4 a.m. By Clive Barnes New York Times Service 10 18 10 16 9 17 9 16 Noon 23 Midn. 13 11 20 11 15 7 13 7 16 8 15 8 15 6 15 6 17 5 15 5 20 12 1 25 14 2 25 12 3 23 13 4 22 temp. p.m.

temp. Washington, D.C. Forecasts: fern 8, South Dakota: Mostly sunny and mild today with highs from Ihe upper 20s northeasl to the mid 40s southwest. Parity cloudy tonight and Saturday. Lows tonight from Ihe mid teens easl lo me mid 20s southwest.

Highs Saturday from the mid 30s east lo near 50 southwest. North Dakota: Portly cloudy through Saturday. Highs today from the mid 20s east lo the low 40s in the extreme west. Lows tonight Iromtne teens east to the mid 20s west. Highs Saturday from the low 30s east lo the 40s west.

Montana, Cast the Divide: Fair and mild today with gusty southwest winds. Highs trom 25 to 35 easl and from 40 to 50 west. Widely scattered showers and cooler tonight and Saturday. Lows tonight from 10 to 20 east and from 20 lo 35 west. Highs Saturday Irom 35 lo 45.

Twin Cities: Clear lo partly cloudy Ihrough Saturday. Winds today will b. from the south at 5 to 10 miles per hour, the high lemperalure near 27. Low tonight near 14 High Saturday near 34. Minnesota: Clear lo partly cloudy through Saturday with a tew snow flurries In the northeast today.

Highs today from 16 lo Lows tonight from itro to 10 above north lo I lo It above south. Highs Saturday from 72 northeast to near 40 southwest. Wisconsin: Mostly sunny today with highs from the mid teens to the low 20s. Mostly clear tonight with lows from 5 lo 10 Increasing cloudiness and warmer Saturday with highs trom the mid 20s to the low 30s. Iowa: Mostly clear and warmer Ihrough Saturday.

Highs today from lha mid 20s to the tow 30s. Lows tonight from 10 lo 20. Highs Saturday from the upper 20s northeasl to Ihe upper 10s toulhwesl. regional weather forecasts Upper Midwest kl wlhSwiK-p lor J.nu.rv21 1877 Winnipeg. International i-aiis High temperature reading in the 12-hour period ending at 6 p.m.

Thursday. Low temperature reading in the 18-hour period ending al 6 p.m. Thursday. Precipitation in Ihe 24-hour period ending at p.m. Thursday.

Devils Lake Grand (J iFurks 2530 (J 1525 Faigol (J I Brainerd 2530 1 20,25 ainerd 1 OFair Cloudy 3 Partly cloudy Numbers Indicate range of high temperatures 0Rain Hsnow Fog Showers ID Drizzle H3 Freezing drizzle Thunder showers 1520 Duluth 0 15(25' is-. MINNESOTA Associated Press 15 20 St. Cloud Twin Cities Aberdeen I 2535 "Miss Lillian," the president's mother, with Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty at the Kennedy Center. Eau Claire 25 17 11 24 23 23 73 0 Twin Citws rl Twin Cllies Alexandria Bemidii Dutulh Interntl Falls Redwood Falls Rochester SI. Cloud WISCONSIN Eau Claire La Crosse Madison metropolitan ar.a 2530 2530 The 1977 "New Spirit Ijigural Concert" at the Kennedfenter Wednesday night had whole galaxy of famous flash! stars and even a few famous ashing teeth.

This was an unutl gala that James Llpton had ranged for the incoming adminration, for two very special reasq, I First, it was truly demottic with a small "dr' btuse it was being televised by CI to the entire nation, but also btuse of the ethnic mix of the sw and its emphasis on black at white (not to mention HispaniAmeri-cans) together. Certainly there was a tresndous air of hope running thrtjh the theater, an air that almoseemed to be running through shing-ton on Wednesday's inauration eve. It was perhaps best ilculat-ed by one of the oldest pple on stage, Bette Davis, when noted the pervasive feeling youth and vitality. If the government proves efficient in governing as it in ordering galas, we shoulbe in great shape. It was impdble to tell what this looked liken television, but in the opera it was a knockout, and thdistin-guished, politically encrud audience apparently enjoy? it as much as did Jimmy CarteiValter Mondale and their wives.

The quality of irreveree and sheer fun was struck rig from the beginning of this fasioving and well-paced show. 1 began when Shirley MacLaine an into a new version of Cy Oman's "It's Not Where You St. It's Where You Finish," new lyrics exploring the pai that have taken Carter fronflains, to the White House, lis set the whole show off with sparkle and gaiety that seem to be maintained. The first serious note wstruck by Paul Newman, who teed of the joy of the occasion, en his wife, Joanne Woodward, ggest-ed that we were gathereiogeth-er "to celebrate a couy, its spirit and its art." Some of the arts were aerated i lomcast Vtorthngton Rochester! slerVl-a Cross' Falls 2830 3035 Mason 27 24 20 4 .09 5 Wausau Sirxjx City Cuy I NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck Dickinson Fargo Grand Forks Jamestown Minot Wllliston 27 0 15 15 3 21 7 23- 6 14 -a Twin Cities air pollution indexes Arborne amounts ot sullur dioxide (from coal and on burning), carbon monoxide (trom mot or verities), particulates (dust) and oxklants lozone) are recorded tor the 24 hours ending at 2 yesterday and reported as low moderate, high or unhealthy. Readings are taken in downtown Mmneapote, downtown St Paul and at University Avenue and Hwy.

280. St. Paul. Highest levels are shown, along with stations reporting such levels. SOUTH DAKOTA Sulfur dioxide ICarbon tncwxidelPartlcutaies lOxidants Moderate Unhealthy Moderate Downtown Downtown Downtown Minneapolis Minneapolis Minneapolis 22 26 7 33 13 10 35 20 44 IS 27 7 24 -2 Aberdeen Huron Lemmon Mobridge Pierre Rapid City Sioux Falls Watertown Trace rather more enthusiastically than others, and one noticed, with a tinge of regret, that classical ballet did not even get a glance.

However, we did have Beverly Sills singing "Una Voce Poco Fa" from "The Barber of Seville." There were also two songs by Leonard Bernstein, conducted by him and performed by the National Symphony Orchestra. The first, "Take Care of This House," came from Bernstein's presidential musical last season on Broadway, "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue." The other was a new song set to words by 17th-century American poet Ann Braodstreet, "If Ever Man Were Loved by and dedicated by the composer to Mrs. Carter. It was, of course, impossible to demonstrate America's supremacy in the Graphic arts although the simple design was for this kind of show as elegant as Lip-ton's direction and Gilbert V. Hensley's technical supervision.

However, the organizers did wish to include literature on the program, and we had a new poem, Jewish president receives a phone call from his long-suffering, neglected mother. Other humor came from Redd Foxx and Freddie Prinze, and there was also a very funny inauguration sketch by Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd. Among the presenters not so far mentioned were Jack Nicholson and, a su-prising but gracious visitor from the opposition, the old Duke himself, John Wayne. Despite these visitors from the cinema, the emphasis was solidly on television. It included Jack Al-bertson, making an appeal to the older generation, and a sketch by Jean Stapleton and the voice of Archie Bunker (unseen) himself, Carrol O'Connor.

Nor was the field of sports disregarded, for Muhammad Ali, in one of his more retiring moods, offered a speech for the occasion, and Hank Aaron introduced the Ailey Dancers. In all, it was an occasion of pleasure, offering a whiff of hope and celebration of a nation. recited for the first time, by James Dickey. Called "The Strength of Fields," it depicted Carter as a "mystique hero" returning to the sources of his power, the common countryside of southern America. Among the more serious spots of entertainment were Gamma Dale and Donnie Ray Albert singing from Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess," and the Alvin Ailey Dance Company bringing the first half of the program to an end with a standing ovation following their excerpts from Ailey's modern dance, "Revelations." Yet for the most part, more popular entertainment prevailed, and this included such singers as Paul Simon, Linda Ronstadt and Aretha Franklin, who ended the program by leading the whole audience and company in "God Bless America." Among the many humorists were Mike Nichols and Elaine May (together again for only the second time in 17 years) doing an adaptation of one of their telephone skits postulating the day the first Weather in other major U.S.

cities Canada 43 30 32 21 23 16 .02 23 16 25 03 27 II 45 32 14 00 Calgary Edmonton Montreal Ottawa Regina Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg Trace World Observations made Thursday, January 20, 1977. Today's Parecatf Tomorrow's Forecast Yesterday City Sky Lo HI Sky La HI L. HI Pcpn. Atbuauerque pt.cktv. 26 41 pi clay.

21 44 24 44 AmeriUo fair 26 54 pi. cidy. 25 24 26 56 Anchorage cldy. 23 2 cldy. 24 21 19 27 Ashevitle pt.cktv.

10 30 sunny 13 31 16 29 .03 Atlanta sunny 20 39 sunny 22 44 II 35 Atlantic City pt.cldy. 19 32 lair 19 2 19 31 Baltimore pt.cktv. 17 32 pt. cldy. IS 29 17 30 Billings pt cldv.

32 50 cldv. 35 45 2fJ 45 Birmingham sunny 26 51 sunny 22 54 22 43 Boston sunny 20 34 sunny 18 29 22 38 Buffalo snow 15 24 cldy. 10 18 13 18 .05 Casper clear 20 42 clear 28 44 23 46 Charleston, SC. sunny 24 45 sunny 22 45 26 41 Chevenne clear 24 50 clear 28 47 18 48 Chicago sunny li 24 pt.cldy. 15 26 12 22 .04 Cincinnati ptcldy.

10 25 fair 12 30 12 22 .07 Cleveland pt.cktv. 06 22 pt.cktv. 10 24 BOS 19 lair 33 60 cldy. 38 58 29 57 Denver fair 21 50 fair 25 54 20 60 Des Moines sunny 10 30 sunny It 35 20 30 Detroit pt.cldy. 09 21 pl.cklv.

08 25 B03 20 El Paso cldv. 38 60 cldv. 38 60 37 39 Fairbanks BI4B04 Great Falls ptcldy. 35 52 cldy. 35 45 27 47 Honolulu pl.cldv.

62 81 Pt.cldy. 62 81 62 SO .04 Houston fair 26 62 Pt.cldy. 43 63 36 64 Jacksonville felr 24 48 fair 25 55 21 47 Kansas Cily tunny 19 35 sunny 22 42 21 32 Las Vegas shwrs. 45 58 pt.cldy. 40 60 42 61 1 Los Angeles shwrs.

57 66 shwrs. 55 68 59 68 Louisville pt.cldy. 15 29 sunny 16 34 18 28 .11 Memphis tunny 23 44 fair 25 48 28 43 Miami Beach fair 37 64 fair 40 67 31 59 Milwaukee sunny 05 22 pt.cktv. 10 28 08 41 .03 New Orleans lair 29 59 fair 39 60 24 57 New York pt.clbv. 21 33 pt.cldy.

18 28 19 36 Oklahoma City fair 26 55 cldv. 29 55 23 55 Omaha tunny 05 38 sunny 19 46 10 35 Orlando fair 30 57 fair 32 60 20 50 Philadelphia pt.cktv. 18 31 fair 18 36 14 30 Phoenix shwrs. 54 66 Pt.cldy. 49 64 57 7 Pittsburgh pt.cldy.

07 21 pl.cldv. 05 20 02 21 .01 Portland, Mains pt.cldy. 08 28 sunny 00 21 00 29 Portland, Ore. pt.cldy. 35 54 pt.cldy.

36 52 34 52 Raleigh pl.cldv. 16 32 sunny 14 35 12 33 SI Loull sunny 10 29 sunny 17 36 14 27 .02 Salt Lake City smoke 21 42 Cloudy 25 43 20 32 Son Antonio fair 32 62 pt. cldy. 43 65 28 59 San Diego shwrs. 57 66 Shwrs.

56 67 57 70 San Francisco pt.cldy. 45 55 pl.cldv. 4 5 58 47 58 San Juan, PR. mlsg. misg.

MM 71 83 .47 St, Ste. Marie cloudy 05 pl.cldv. 02 20 14 23 .02 Seattle shwrs. 42 50 pt.cldy. 40 48 37 46 Tampa-SI.

Prog. lair 30 57 fair 32 60 26 53 Washington pt.cldy. 19 34 pl.cldv. 18 32 20 33 Guindtn 'National Health' is invigorating tonic as finale at Guthrie City Time Temp Aberdeen p.m. 41 Amsterdam 1 p.m.

34 Ankara 3 p.m. 28 Antigua a.m. 77 Athens 2 p.m. 41 Auckland Mdnf. 63 Berlin 1 p.m.

27 Beirut 7 p.m. 43 Birmingham 1pm. 43 Bonn 1 p.m. 39 Brussefs 1 p.m, 37 Cairo 2 P.m. 61 Casablanca Noon 63 Copenhagen 1 p.m.

28 Dublin 1 p.m. 46 Geneva 1 P.m. 37 Hong Kong I p.m. 61 Lisbon Noon 57 London 1 p.m. 45 Madrid 1 p.m, 52 Malta 1 p.m.

57 Manila 8 P.m. 75 Moscow 3om. 05 New Delhi 5 p.m. 64 Nice 1 m. 50 Oslo 1 p.m.

21 Paris 1 p.m. 43 Peking 8 p.m. 23 Rome 1 p.m. 52 Saigon 8 P.m. 79 Seoul 9 p.m.

25 Sofia 2 p.m. 27 Stockholm 1 p.m. 27 Svdnev 10 p.m. 68 Taipei 8 p.m. 61 Teheran 3 p.m.

36 Tel Aviv 2 p.m. 54 Tokyo 9 p.m. 39 Tunis 1 p.m. 55 Vienna 1 p.m. 36 Warsaw 1 p.m.

19 Temperatures are overnight lows and daytime highs. indicates temperature below lero Reported precipitation is for the 74 hours enoing at 7 a.m. yesterday (Minneapolis lime). indicates information unavailable from National Weather Service. indicates trace.

Today's National Weather Service forecast Suppled by the Associated Press Latin America Asuncion 8 a.m. 79 Buenos Aires 8 a.m. 77 Lima 7 a.m. 72 Montevideo 9 a.m. 75 Rio Oe Janeiro 9 a.m.

73 Highest temperatures recorded In the 24-hour period ending at noon Thursday. January 20, 1977. Acapulco Barbados Bermuda Bogota Culiacan Free port Guadalajara Guadeloupe Havana Kingston Montego 8av Maiatian Merida Mexico if Monlerrev Nassau San Juan PR St. Kitts St. Thomas V.I.

Tegucigalpa Trinidad Vera Cruz OccHMtadZZS Stationary tyures show high teinperalures expected today PvJSJflato rrmiShowr PJSnow By Mike Steele Staff Writer Peter Nichols's "The National Health," the final offering of this Guthrie Theater season, is a play of frictions, rubbing together the unlikely to create the unexpected. The setting is a drab men's ward in a large London hospital, an unlikely spot for comedy. As we watch the evening unwind rather leisurely in this production the humor comes at us from strange angles. It moves from the caustic ravings of a terminal cancer patient to the meanderings of the spent mind of an 82-year-old doctor; from the hopelessness of a probably homosexual ulcer patient to the mordant insights of a drink-besotted cynic. Of course Nichols has made us laugh at the unlikely before, most particularly in his popular "Joe Egg," which was a laugh riot about raising an epileptic daughter, though a laugher with feeling.

Nichols gets his power from taking us to the edge of bad taste without going over, then softening it with human dignity and caring. The patients in "The National Health" are in a bureaucratic, nationalized hospital in which one patient dies because an orderly forgets to bring a wrench for the oxygen. Nichols counterpoints all this with delicious parodies of soap opera medical shows in which difficult transplants are carried out with virtuoso nonchalance and human problems are resolved to the strains of sentimental organ melodies. and the heavy-handed. I find the combination curiously effective, though it's not hard to see why Nichols frustrates people.

The play has a distance, a coolness, as Nichols refuses to become too involved emotionally. He provides good characters and lots of information, but decides against "big statements." To me, it's all to the good. As with Pinter, or even Noel Coward, what we see on the surface leads us to our emotional cores. "The National Health" can be a simple parody of hospitals or a statement about what happens when a country anesthetizes its population a stab at social Utopia or a comment on people's illusions and society's facades in the face of the grimmest reality of all. The play is strongest when it deals with human dignity, and over the evening the parody sequences seem intrusive, but there's no denying their impact.

Nichols codirected with Michael Langham, and the emphasis is on the comic. The opening performance was a bit tentative, with too much waiting for audience reaction, but that will resolve itself. I much admired the directors' willingness to let the characterizations and surface brilliance carry the play, even in front of sober-sided American audiences. Besides Davis, Richard Ramos was superb as the crotchety Loach, and Peter Michael Goetz was a wonderful contrast as the sweet, optimistic, but defeated Ash. Other excellent portraits in a strong cast come from Tony Moc-kus as a cancer patient, Russell Gold as the failing Flagg, Jeff "Hello, Mom? I got the rail' 'Roots' a TV drama that dl should see exercised on "Roots" is to make sure everyone in your family plans to stay home every evening to watch it.

It is the most important, most engrossing show of the television season. To most white Americans, the slave trade is a phrase from our history books, quickly expunged from our memory. The triumph of "Roots" is that it humanizes this evil chapter in American history, makes us see the horror of slavery in human terms. In a way it's an antidote to "The Adams Chronicles," and it covers roughly the same period from a generation before the American Revolution to the post-Civil War period. In this case the family chronicled through five generations has no rights, and the colonial cries for liberty sound ironic, Indeed.

speaks glowingly of Patr? Henry's speech before the Hse of Burgesses that day. In arher, a pious plantation owner sties the scriptures with a maifying glass, oblivious to the scims of a runaway slave being wiped). Along with engrossing iln its narrative, "Roots" clears some misconceptions about theproot-ed Africans. They were ISlems, not heathens, and their viliza-tion wasn't barbaric. I Occasionally this redreag of history goes overboard.

1 passage to manhood of Kun Kinte (Haley's ancestor) is nte to sound like a combinatioof an Oxford oral exam and thlabors of Hercules, and the iangge of his tribe seems overly font (Father to mother after Kinte kid- -napped by slave traders: still have two sons, but nowne is forever outside your comes apparent in Monday night's episode, however, when it contrasts oddly with the "Yazzuh, boss" dialect that the American slaves have adopted in the presence of their white masters. LeVar Burton, a drama student at the University of Southern California, brings a galvanizing intensity to the role of Kinte, and a huge cast, too numerous to single out, is uniformly good. One who should be mentioned is Edward Asner, if only because he manages to make believable an inherently improbable character: the conscience-stricken captain of a slave ship. It will be interesting to see whether enough of us want to see the dark side of our history unearthed to make "Roots" a ratings success, especially for eight straight nights. But it's a story that badly needs telling.

We can all jearn from it. By Bob Lundegaard Staff Writer Television is creating lots of discreet parents these days. "Parental discretion" was advised for Thursday's "Give 'em Hell, in case some of our offspring might discover that a U.S. president used the same words they hear in the schoolyard every day. More inexplicably, ABC is urging the same discretion for its "Roots," a 12-hour dramatization of Alex Haley's best-selling search for his African heritage, which starts Sunday at 8 p.m.

and plays on consecutive nights through the following Sunday. Of course parental discretion is a worthwhile thing, but why not exercise it where it will do the most good? Say, on "Charlie's Angels" or The only discretion that should be Chandler as the heart patient fos- Tying the "real" and the "unreal' toeether is an interlocutor named ter, Jane Murray as Nurse Sweet, Oliver Cliff as Dr. Boyd, Karen Barnet. an orderly who suddenly Landry as the overworked national health doctor and Barbara Bryne in a cameo role as a religious zealot. It's a brilliant, provocative, erratic, altogether stimulating work and the Guthrie has done well by it.

bounces into the spotlight, does some music-hall turns and narrates the soap opera. A grinning, wise-cracking Lance Davis takes the part with gusto. It's an odd combination of elements in one stew, a strange mixing the farcical, the affecting (In one particularly ironic scene, a be fatuous slave-trader in Virginia The reason for much of saaiaakaausvap mmmu.