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1 The weather Readings for February 18, 1979 MINNEAPOLIS READINGS: (Yesterday) Humidity al p.m. 50 percent. Precipitation: 24 hours ending 6 p.m. none. Total Jan, to date 1.55 inches.

Snowfall: 24 hours ending 6. p.m. Total this month 7.8 inches. Season total 53.6 inches. (Today) rises a.m..

sets 5:46 p.m. Moon phase Last Quarter. Rises 12:32 a.m., sets 10:57 a.m. COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES (24-hour period ending at 6 p.m.): High 13 (2 p.m. to 4 1 1 1 p.m.).

Low 4 (1 a.m. to 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. to 8 a.m.). Year ago high 17, low -2.

All-time high for February 19, 55 HEATING UNITS as of February 17, 1979. Heating units are used in estimating fuel consumption. The daily figure reflects the degrees by which average temperatures went below 65, the point at which artificial heating is generally considered necessary, Cumulative figures report heating units since July Daily heating units, 67. Same date last year, 59. Normai for this date, 48.

Season total, 6041. Season total on same date last vear, 6096. Normal season total for this date, 5582. in 1954. All-time low for February 19, -20 in 1929 and 1941.

Sunday's temperatures: a.m. 2 3 5 6 00 9 10 11 Noon temp. 5 5 5 9 10 p.m. 2 3 5 AI co 10 11 temp. 12 13 13 13 12 9 5 Forecasts: Twin Cities: Variable cloudiness and warmer through Tuesday.

High today in the upper 20s. Low tonight about 5 above. High Tuesday in the low to mid 30s. South to southwest winds 10 to 15 miles per hour today. Minnesota: Mostly cloudy north, variable cloudiness south through Tuesday.

Warmer today with highs in the 20s to near 30. Lows tonight 10 to 20 above. Highs Tuesday in the upper 20s to low 30s northeast to the mid 30s southwest. Wisconsin: Partly cloudy and warmer today with highs in the upper teens to mid 20s. Mostly cloudy west tonight and increasing cloudiness east.

Not as cold with lows mostly in the teens. Mostly cloudy Tuesday with a chance of light snow or flurries and warmer. Highs in the upper 20s to low 30s. Iowa: Mostly sunny and warmer today with in the mid 20s northeast to the mid 30s south Variable cloudiness and warmer tonight T. Made yesterday afternoon by the National Weather Service for February 19 OFar Cloudy Winnipey: Partly cloudy International Numbers indicate Devils Falls range of high Lake temperatures Grand Forks Rain Snow Duluth Fargo, Fog Brainerd El Showers Drizzle Freezing drizzle Aberdeen St.

Cloud Twin Cities, Eau Claire E) Thundershowers Twin Cities and metropolitan area forecast Worthington Rochester Sioux Crosse Falls Mason City City Today's regional weather forecasts Weather in other Yesterday Lo HI Pcpn. Amarillo 54 Albuquerque 57 Anchorage 17 Asheville 15 24 93 Atlanta 21 27 1.53 Atlantic City Baltimore .07 Billings Birmingham 33 1.01 Boston Buffalo Casper Charleston, S.C Chevenne Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas- Ft. Worth Denver Des Moines Detroit 03 El Paso Fairbanks Great Falls Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Louisville Memphis A' Miami Beach New Orleans Milwaukee 89: New York Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando '88' Philadelphia Phoenix Portland, Portland. Pittsburgh Me Ore PEE' Raleigh St. Louis 8' Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco St Ste.

San Juan, P.R. 75 Seattle Tampa- St. Prbg. 56 Washington 13 Marie 28'8'8 Temperatures are overnight lows and is for the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. information unavailable from National day.

Lows tonight in the teens to low 20s. Highs Tuesday in the 30s north and east to the low 40s southwest. North Dakota: Clear to partly cloudy and warming through Tuesday. Highs today in the upper 30s southwest to the 20s northeast. Lows tonight in the teens.

Highs Tuesday in the 20s to low 30s. siow South Dakota: trend Partly in cloudy through Tuesday. A warming the east. Highs today in the east to the 40s southwest. Lows tonight in the teens east to the 20s southwest.

Highs Tuesday in the upper 20s northeast to the low 40s southwest. Montana, East of the Divide: Variable cloudiness today, turning colder tonight and Tuesday west and south. Highs today 35 to 45 except 10 to 20 northeast. Lows tonight in the 20s except near 0 northeast. Highs Tuesday in the 30s except 5 to 15 north and Upper Midwest 1-High temperature reading in the 12-hour riod ending at 7 p.m.

day. L--Low temperature ing in the 18-hour ending at 7 p.m. Sunday. P-Precipitation in the hour period ending p.m. Sunday.

-Trace. MINNESOTA Twin Alexandria Cities 1 Bemidil 15 Duluth 10 Interntl. Fails 14 16 Redwood Falls 12 Rochester 10 St. Cloud 12 WISCONSIN La Eau Wausau Madison Crosse Claire 15 14 honor NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck Dickinson Fargo Grand Forks Jamestown 13 Minot 20 Williston SOUTH DAKOTA Aberdeen Huron Lemmon Mobridge Pierre Rapid City Sioux Falls Watertown 10 Canada Calgary Edmonton Montreal -20 Ottawa 18 Regina Toronto Vancouver 48 36 Winnipeg World Observations made day, February 18, 1979 City Time Temp. Aberdeen 1 a.m.

Amsterdam 1 a.m. Ankara 3 a.m. Antigua 8 p.m. Athens 2 a.m. Auckland Beirut Berlin Birmingham 1 a.m.

Bonn 1 a.m. Brussels 1 a.m. Cairo 2 a.m. Casablanca Mdnt. Copenhagen 1 a.m.

Dublin 1 a.m. Geneva 1 a.m. Hong Kong 8 a.m. Lisbon Mont. London 1 a.m.

Madrid 1 a.m. Malta 1 a.m. Manila 8 a.m. Moscow 3 a.m. New Delhi 5 a.m.

Nice 1 a.m. Oslo Paris 1 a.m. Peking 8 a.m. Rome 1 a.m. Saigon 8 a.m, Seoul 9 a.m.

Sofia 2 a.m. Stockholm 1 a.m. Sydney Taipei. Teheran Tokvo 9 a.m. Tunis 1 a.m.

Vienna a.m. Warsaw 1 a.m. Latin America City Time Asuncion Buenos Aires p.m. Lima p.m. Montevideo 9 p.m.

R. de Janeiro 9 p.m. Highest temperatures corded in the 24-hour od ending at 1 noon February 18, 1979. City Acapulco Barbados Bermuda Bogota Culiacan Curacao Freeport Guadalaiara Guadeloupe Havana Kingston Montego Bay Mazatian Merida Mexico City Monterrey Nassau San Juan, P.R. SI.

Kitts St. Thomas, V.I. 'U' theater brings back 'Hotel Paradiso' If we take all the great farces of the world stage, and let's include a dash of Chaplin and a soupcon of Keaton for spice, and run them through our critical food processors, there's one ingredient that is present in every dish an absolute faithfulness to the inner lives of the characters. In every case, we have characters who have accepted the dictates of their civilizations (especially those dealing with love and marriage) and, with that acceptance, have also bought the frustrations of that civilization. Farce lives, then, in that arena where human nature goes manoa-mano up against society's unnatural laws.

Let's take a well-known example, (Guindon Tribune QUINDON "Is it true that in Kenwood they have an ice skating rink made entirely of Perrier water?" Georges Feydeau's "Hotel Para- Instead of saying people are diso," a work, co-authored by Mau- real, caught in an artificial world, rice Desvallieres, that has held the they say these people are stage since 1894 and is now back in Therefore, the fact they're caught in town at the University of Minnesota an artificial world is not funny. At its Theater. We're dealing in this Victo- best it is only silly. rian world with two couples. Boniface and Cot are both successful Secondly, every person on stage sets builders and both unsuccessfully out to be funny.

But, with the excepmarried. Boniface has been stuck for tion, perhaps, of the lawyer, these, some 20 years with the fat and op- aren't funny people. They're only pressive Angelique. The dull-witted people who, as a result of human Cot is having a miserable time hold- feelings, get themselves into funny ing on to the perky, lively Marcelle. circumstances.

Yet the university acWhat society expects, and therefore tors push mightily to be funny and they themselves expect, being noth- what they lose in the process is the ing if not accepting of society, is sophistication of the characters and. fidelity. And God knows they work at the period and, finally, all taste. it. These are directoral problems, as is, But Feydeau, brilliant craftsman the mis-timed energy, the chaotic that he is, doesn't take very long to physical activity, the inability to show us that this fidelity has taken charge either physical action or verits toll.

Angelique's first few speech- bal delivery with real energy. Everyes would be enough to drive most of one acts in an overstylized manner, us to divorce court or, at the least, close to stock company melodrama, into some secret tryst. And, of and as a consequence nothing course, before the play is out, we and none of the acting interacts. know Boniface will finally take that secondary action. We can also guess Individually, Marcia Ellian Gardner: he will share his societal sin with as Marcelle shows by far the most none other than Marcelle.

promise. She has life and one even senses some real emotions there. In Feydeau goes even farther, of a more acute production she would course, mixing in a stuttering provin- be perfect. Janice Cole as the maid cial lawyer with four dizzy daugh- is also on the right track, even ters, a bookish nephew trying to dis- though she's been directed with the, cover passion by reading Spinoza, a subtlety of a heated musk oxen. pert maid who is willing to teach him passion above and beyond Spi- Of the rest, Brian Martin as Boniface noza's ken and an elegantly faded has all the equipment but, for some hotel run by lunatics as an outlet for reason, gives a flat, unvarying perjust such men.

These farces, as Eric formance. He can say hello to a Bentley once said, are dedicated to passing stranger and get caught in married men. the hotel with his pants down and never change his delivery. The rest Such plays are pin-pricks stuck into of the cast is far below that. the hot air of social mores, themselves an outlet for inner repression.

The setting, by Rolfe D. Bergsman, Their comic value is almost exactly has an effective Art Nouveau buildequal to the amount of inner believ- er's room which, inexplicably, uses ability, normality and sophistication only a small part of the stage. His of each character. The humor comes hotel interior is clumsy and misconfrom seeing grand individuals react ceived. The lighting throughout is normally within an abnormal con- execrable.

text, thus finding themselves flung about outrageously in situations sud- Feydeau lavished this play with denly beyond their control. boundlessly energetic circumstances. In so doing, he exposed the Given that quotient, the university nature of real humanity behind the production is not very comic. Direc- facades of society. This production tor Lee Adey and his cast have made has tried to deal with that human the most common and most crippling nature without dealing with the huof all mistakes in dealing with this mans.

kind of farce: they totally ignore the real, human qualities of the characters. They simply don't believe them. Copland, Davies appear at Orchestra Hall Aaron Copland and Dennis Russell Davies gave Twin Cities concertgoers a preview at Orchestra Hall Saturday night of a program they will perform on March 23 with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. By Mike Steele Staff Writer 36 By Michael Anthony Staff Writer It was a program of four works by Copland, for which the composer shared the podium with Davies, who is on sabbatical this year from his music directorship of the chamber orchestra.

Davies opened the program playing the piano part in the 1950 Piano Quartet and concluded the evening with a performance of the Symphony No. 2, which has come to be called the "Short Symphony" and which Davies has rescored for small orchestra. Between these, Copland conducted his "Appa25 lachian Spring" suite and the Three Latin American Sketches. The presentation of the Quartet and the Symphony made this an especial70 ly interesting program, as these are 72 first-rate but seldom-heard works of 70 Copland's. Both manifest what is 75 called the composer's "austere" reperi- style (as opposed to the so-called popular or demotic style of works such as "Billy the Kid," "Rodeo" and "Appalachian It is hard to take such categorizations very seriously, however.

Even when he took up serialism, as in the Quartet and the much-earlier Piano Variations, Copland did so by exploring certain tendencies in his own style, and the result, even in these works, is unmistakably Copland in both melodic structure and instrumental voicings. The background of the Short Sym- South is no place to elude the cold major U.S. cities Today's Tomorrew's Forecast Forecast Sky M. Lo Mi Sky Lo MI Fair 26 56 Picidy 28 56 Sunny 20 Sunny Fair 119 25 Picidy 21 Sunny 28 Snow Fair 18 Snow Sunny 16 Picidy Snoshwrs 24 Fair Fair Cloudy Fair Picidy Picidy Sunny Sunny Picidy Picidy Sunny 26 Sunny Picidy Picidy Cloudy Picidy Snow Fair Fair 25 Cloudy Sunny Picidy 24 Sunny Picidy Picidy Picidy 16 Fair 33 66 Picidy 35 Clear -35 -111 Clear -36 Picidy Snoshwrs Rain Picidy Picidy 35 Cloudy Sunny 28 Picidy Cloudy Fair Sunny Picidy Picidy Picidy Cloudy Cloudy 47 Sunny Picidy 25 Fair Picidy Picidy Picidy Picidy Cloudy Fair Picidy Snow Sunny Fair Picidy Sunny Sunny Cloudy Fair Snow Fair Sunny Picidy Picidy Picidy Rain Shwrs Fair Sunny Sunny Picidy Shwrs Picidy 27 Picidy Cloudy Fair Cloudy Picidy Rain Shwrs Picidy Picidy Cloudy Shwrs 39 Rain Cloudy Cloudy 50 14 Sunny Fair 20 35 daytime highs. Reported precipitation vesterday (Minneapolis Time), indicates Weather Service.

indicates trace Today's National Weather Service forecast Suppled by the Assocated Press 20 20 Cold a Warm: Occluded 2 Stationary Figures show high temperatures expected today A Rain Showers Snow Flurries Air flow Updated reports Taped weather reports about the metropolitan area and Minnesota, revised every hour and broadcast 24 hours a day, can be received on the Weather Service radio station, KEC65, which operates at 162.55 Mhz on the upper FM band. Associated Press hundreds of flights. One of the air- hazardous. Parts of North Carolina port's three runways reopened early yesterday afternoon. Airports in both Carolinas and Lovell-Field Airport in Chattanooga, were shut down by the snowstorm.

Georgia State Highway Patrol spokesman Mark Lott warned motorists to stay off the roads yesterday unless travel was absolutely necessary. In Decatur, officials said an aluminum roof at a farmers market collapsed yesterday afternoon. The market was closed because of the weather and there were no injuries. In South Carolina, six to 10 inches of snow and sleet covered the state and driving conditions were extremely Minneapolis Tribune Feb. 19, 1979 peSun- period 24- at 3'6 04 .03 428 8: '88 phony is well known by now.

What were to be its initial performances in 1933 by both the Philadelphia and Boston orchestras were canceled because the work was thought to be too difficult to play. There is a kind of rhythmic trickiness to the piece (shared by many works of that time and thereafter), but it's hard to conceive of the piece as unplayable. It is texturally spare, which probably gives the work less immediate appeal, but given an assured, precisioned performance such as that rendered by Davies and the orchestra Saturday night, the symphony seems not only easily comprehensible but eloquent, surely one of Copland's major works for orchestra. The performance of the Piano Quartet, by contrast, was hampered by the audience's rude applause between the movements, which the performers, to their credit, did their best to ignor but which spoiled any attempted carry-over of mood between the movements. (Fortunately, the symphony is played without break.) The piece was superbly played, nonetheless, with Davies at the piano, concertmaster Romuald Tecco on violin, Tamas Strasser on viola and Peter Howard on cello.

The players began with an imposing and extra-slow statement of the theme (or the basis of the work, and built the first movement into a cohesive and ultimately pas- Actor William Gargan, 73, dies of heart attack Associated Press Carlsbad, Calif. William Dennis Gargan, 73, a toughguy actor for 36 years who achieved equal fame as a cancer crusader after losing his voice to the disease, is dead. Gargan suffered a heart attack Friday on a flight to San Diego from New York, where he had recently concluded a lecture tour for the American Cancer Society. He was pronounced dead at San Diego's Center City Hospital. A funeral service is scheduled for Tuesday in Del Mar, near the former actor's home at the Rancho La Costa resort in this coastal town 20 miles north of San Diego.

Gargan was born July 17, 1905, in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. Following his older brother Edward, a character actor, he turned first to the stage and then in 1932 to the movies, playing opposite Joan Crawford in "Rain." He appeared in dozens of films and was nominated for an Oscar in 1940 for his performance as the vineyard foreman whose photograph was used to attract a mail- bride for his boss in "They Knew What They Wanted." He also played in the 1945 Bing Crosby movie "The Bells of St. Mary's" and wasthe first smallscreen sleuth in the "Martin Kane, Private Eye" TV series. His acting career ended in 1960 when doctors discovered a malignant tumor in his larynx and removed the organ, which contains the vocal cords. At the time, Gargan was playing a former president dying of cancer in Gore Vidal's play, "The sionate utterance and continued with precise rhythms and exact intonation.

The remaining and more familiar works progressed nicely and evenly under Copland's baton. As was the case with Stravinsky conducting his own works, Copland, who at 78 looks to be in fine health and spirits, doesn't so much interpret his pieces as simply lay them out cleanly, clearly and sensibly, if not very citingly. Especially in the case of Copland seemed to be conducting the prose version of a poetic text, though this, is obviously a minority report, as the; audience gave him a standing ova-1 tion when he had finished. William Gargan Best Man." Gargan regained a voice of sorts by learning esophageal speech, in which air is gulped in and then forced out so as to vibrate a soundproducing muscle at the top of the throat. He went on to teach the same technique to hundreds of laryngectomees and traveled throughout the country as a full-time volunteer to raise funds and publicize the work of the American Cancer Society.

Gargan wrote about his experiences in an autobiography, "Why Me?" published five years ago. He is survived by his wife, Mary, sons William Gargan Jr. and Leslie Howard Gargan, and three grandchildren. RUDOLPH'S Celebrates WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY Why not celebrate Washington's Special Day with Rudolph's, and we'll treat you to a delicious piece of cherry pie to top off your Rudolph's meal. HONESTLY! RUDOLPHS OPEN DAYS A WEEK Mpis.

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75 south from Chattanooga and Interstate Hwy. 24 over Monteagle Mountain were almost impassable as a result of a sixinch snowfall. In the north, the four westernmost Great Lakes were frozen over for the first time in modern history, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Lake Ontario was only about 40 percent ice-covered, the coast guard said.

Record lows continued across the northeast quadrant of the country. The temperature in New York City dropped to zero at 6 a.m., the lowest for the date in 83 years. CHANHASSEN DINNER BRONCO THEATRE Opera House The Musical FINAL WEEKS Legend of King Closing Mar. 11th Arthur LOOT Camelot all shows with except Fri. Wed.

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