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She didn't say a word about him needing the good publicity. San Francisco Chronicle TELEVISION The common touch In response to Parenting magazine pollsters who asked Americans which television program best reflects their family lives: Forty percent said 28 percent said "Leave It to 7 percent said "The and another 7 percent said "The Addams Family." San Francisco Chronicle TRIVIA Filling in the blanks on Barbie est your knowledge about that enduring American icon. Barbie: 1 What was Barbie's 'birth" date? 2. What is Barbie's full name? 3. What high school did Barbie graduate from? 4.

In what year did Barbie first become an astronaut? 5. In how many countries are Barbies sold? 6. How many Barbie dolls have been sold since 1959? The answers: 1. March 9, 1959, the day she was unveiled at Toy Fair, the official industry trade show 2. Barbie Millicent Roberts 3.

Willows High School (at age 17) 4. 1965 (20 years before Sally Ride) 5. 144 6. More than 775 million Source Mattel Inc. Forth Worth Star-Telegram AROUND TOWN you imagine? I now run into the sons and daughters of my former students," she said.

Retired prof essor Southall's forte is instruction, inspiration By Michael AnthonyStaff Writer "Now, this is why you teach," said Geneva Handy Southall, who retired in 1 992 after 22 years as professor of Afro-American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Minnesota. Seated in her home in south Minneapolis and surrounded by the mementos of a lifetime of teaching, concertizing and musical scholarship, she pulled an article from a scrapbook. It was a profile of Lester Monts, vice president of multicultural affairs at the University of Michigan. "While he was at the University of Minnesota," the article said, "he was greatly influenced by Dr. Geneva Southall." This is the sort of thing that makes an old teacher beam with satisfaction, and Southall has dozens of such tributes.

"Can you imagine? I now run into the sons and daughters of my former students," she said. A small, vital woman of 68 with close-cropped gray hair, she displays an earlier version of herself in a photograph taken with her first husband nearly 50 years ago. It's hardly recognizable, mostly because of the '40s-style long hair. "I had my Veronica Lake hairdo back then," she said, laughing. Though Southall has been tireless in her efforts to promote works by composers of African descent most notably pioneering two volumes on the life and times of Blind Tom, a slave pianist and composer of the 19th century if she were to sit down at the grand piano in piano in her Minneapolis home.

''Can Rangers haunt What about the traditional witch, ghost, mummy and vampire? Plenty of kids will be donning the traditional scary costumes, Svendsen-Deiches said. Here are this year's top outfits for kids, according to the Sewing Fashion Council survey of retailers nationwide: Wild kingdom Lion, skunk, Beauty's beast, bear, cow, dinosaur. Super heroes Power Rangers, X-Men, The Shadow, Toxic Avengers, Batman, SpldermanSpiderwoman, Cartoon characters Flintstones, Beavis and Butthead, Ren and Stlmpy, Simpsons, Garfield, Tweety. Ghastfy guises Witch. Elvira, vampire, werewolf, ghost, Frankenstein.

Carnival and circus costumes Clown, fortune teller, lion tamer, ringmaster, acrobat, elephant. Royalty Princess Jasmine and Aladdin, knight, lady In waiting, Prince Charming, king, court ester. Food Pumpkin, Hershey's Kiss, peanut-butter cup, tomato, ice cream sundae. in Geneva Southall (back row, second from right), has been a powerful force in music education for decades. This 1977 photo was taken at a scholarsip fund-raiser at Pilgrim Baptist Church.

her dining room, the music she would choose might well be European. When she gave a recital at Wesley United Methodist Church in 1992 honor of her retirement from the university, her repertoire consisted of works by four of those famous dead, white European males: SOUTHALL continued on page 2E (it Black Music Educators of the Twin Cities Who: Geneva Handy Southall will play piano with a trio called Women of Class, along with flutist Faye Washington and oboist Diana Washington. Also on the program: gospel singer Doris Akers, Donald Washington and the New Day Blues Band, and the Reginald Buckner Memorial Ensemble. What: 20th anniversary concert Where: Plymouth Congregational Church, 1900 Nicollet Av. When: 8 p.m.

Saturday Tickets: $8 and $15. 989-5151 'Nine Squares" Is one of the Ellsworth Kelly works on view at Walker Art Center. As the museum's staff was putting finishing touches on the Installation last week, the designers' painstaking attention to detail was apparent everywhere, especially in a note indicating where to place the label for the painting "Red Green Blue." The 1964 work gets a whole wall at least 100 feet long to Itself. KELLY continued on page 5E ghostly garb Ellsworth Kelly show delights in simple (but infinite) nuance From stage to gallery Guthrie Theater veterans meaning most Minnesotans over 40 will remember the startling inventiveness of productions that Tanya Moiseiwitsch designed In the theater's early years. Sir Tyrone Guthrie's 1967 production of "The House of Atreus," for which Moiseiwitsch did both costumes and sets, Is among her masterpieces.

She also designed the theater's original thrust stage. Drawings, stage models and research notebooks from seven of Moiselwitsch's productions are the focus of a handsome new show at the University of Minnesota's Weisman Art Museum, 333 E. River Minneapolis. University student actors will perform short scenes from Shakespeare, Greek drama and other works in the museum galleries at 12:15 p.m. today and Wednesday, and at 2 p.m.

Sunday and Oct 29. The museum is open 10 a.m. to D.m. Tuesdav. Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m.

to 8 p.m. Thursday and 1 1 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends. mere is no admission charge.

Mary Abbe Horrors! Power By Tim HarlowStaff Writer Open the door to pass out treats on Halloween night and you can expect to see Power Rangers, X-Men, Batman, Spiderman, Beavis and Butthead, and characters from the Flintstones and the Simpsons standing on your steps. Those are among this year's hottest-selling ready-made and sew- at-home costumes for kids, according to Caryl Svendsen-Deiches, a spokesperson for the Sewing Fashion Council, a New York firm that represents the American Home Sewing and Craft Association. "Whether you're talking about adult or children's costumes, the media It the catalyst that Influences what people are wearing," said Svendsen-Deiches, who recently surveyed more than 10,000 retail outlets nationwide to find out what's in for Halloween 1994. Characters from movies such as "The Lion King" and "Beauty and the Beast," along with cartoon favorites such as Garfield and the Peanuts Gang also will be popular among treat-seekers this year. In the galleries By Mary AbbeStaff Writer Ellsworth Kelly's single-color paintings, prints and sculptures appear so simple and direct that he could easily be dismissed as an artist whose glass is half empty.

Someone, that is, with little to say and an exceedingly limited vocabulary with which to say it. Any such assumptions are soundly countered by the lively, infinitely nuanced show of Kelly's work that opened this week at Walker Art Center. Spanning 35 years of his prolific career, the show Is a visual and Intellectual delight. It offers ample proof that Kelly's artistic glass Is brim full and overflowing. Working with Walker curatorial assistant Sir! Engberg, Kelly himself arranged the 60 works in two galleries, placing them with the same exquisite refinement that characterizes his art.

I Characters from movies such as "The Lion King" are popular this year. This costume is from the McCall's Pattern Company. 1 k.M..