Fraternity Plans to Make a Little ‘Noise’

Well, fellas, it’s about time. The Fraternity of Friends, the very macho Music Center support group, is staging another of its special events, and this time wives are included. For both sexes the evening of Feb. 7 will include a cocktail reception, a preview performance of “Noises Off” at the Ahmanson Theatre and a pre-performance talk by Robert Fryer, artistic director of Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre. Fryer will be telling Fraternity members and their mates that “Noises Off,” starring Dorothy Loudon and the original Broadway company, is an “irreverent comedy based on the misadventures of a troupe of fifth-rate actors . . . during their flea-bag provincial tour.” We’ve heard of New York audiences rolling in the aisles. The Fraternity is bound to go that one better.

In the audience are bound to be Fraternity president W.M. (Marc) Marcussen and his wife, Barbara; vice president Richard Lippin and his wife, Ronnie; board members Harold Keith and Charles Schneider and their spouses. Plus Joe and Beverly Mitchell, Ernest and Ruth Friedman, Warner and Carol Henry, Kirk and Marty Calhoun, Martin and Donna Melone.

Para Los Ninos, the child-care center for the children of Skid Row, stages its first black-tie recognition dinner Thursday night at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Receiving their dues that night for the support and help they’ve given Para Los Ninos will be Mayor Tom Bradley, Times Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Tom Johnson, Atlantic Richfield’s Robert Wycoff and the Weingart Foundation.

Co-chairing this first are Howard P. Allen, Yvonne B. Burke, Robert R. Dockson and Winston V. Morrow. And serving on the dinner committee, among many more, are David Figueroa, Roy Anderson, James W. Abbott, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., James D. Boswell, Patricia McDonald, Kathleen Arias and David R. Carpenter.

The Social Scramble: It was giggles and happy sounds all through the ladies luncheon Stella Stambler and Marilyn Wolf gave upstairs at the Bistro for Geri Firks, who is marrying Richard Brawerman on Friday. Among those jumping for joy over the upcoming merger were Nancy Epstein, Eileen Kreiss (back from a Hawaiian holiday), Nancy Gamm, Edie Waxenberg, Ruth Roman, Zena Hoffman, Ellen Byrens, Miriam Parkes (designing away under the name Maruscha), Carol Kaye, Shirley Familian, Jean Bachelis, Marian Golenternek, Helene Briskin and Bette Eisenberg.

It’s all for a good cause--the University of California, Santa Barbara--so Beverley Jackson grins, shrugs her shoulders and says she’s ready to get on with it. Being a really good sport she’ll let Fannie Flagg, Chancellor Robert A. Huttenback, Dorothy and Robert Mitchum, Milton Spring and a few surprise additions roast her to their hearts’ content Feb. 9 at Santa Barbara’s Restaurante del Paseo. Along with the roasting, the committee--Ginny Steele, Karen Adams, Roy Gaskin, Sylvia Brickley, Betty Groebli, Ardis Higgins, Bonnie Raisin and the rest--is also planning a gourmet dinner. That brave man Craig Case is tackling the job of master of ceremonies.

Amid balloons and multicolored flowers and black columns (the decor was by Bates Hinds and his Flower Pavilion) the Guild for Cystic Fibrosis hosted a “celebration” at the Century Plaza on Saturday night and presented Mr. and Mrs. Andy Gump and Mr. and Mrs. Barry Gump with 1984 Breath of Life Awards. The “celebration” included dinner and dancing and a celebrity auction.

Chef Joachim Splichal is preparing the lunch--a surprise--and Val Fleur is providing the wine for today’s meeting of the Angel Patrons of Wine at one of L.A.’s newest restaurants, Max au Triangle. Hosting for the Angels are Mrs. L. James Hutson and Mrs. Robert J. Kribs.

Socializing (at separate tables) one night at Morton’s--Christina Ferrare de Lorean with ABC’s Anthony Thomopoulos, Wendy and Leonard Goldberg; and Marianne and Kenny Rogers with Juli and Herbert Hutner.

Lunching at the Bistro--Betty Wilson, wife of the ambassador to the Vatican, with Lorena Nidorf, Marion Jorgensen, Ruth Jones and Onnalee Doheny; Barbara Richardson with Margaret Ponty Spillane. And enjoying the atmosphere at the Bistro Garden at lunch time Friday afternoon--Grace Robbins, Fernando Allende and Linda Christian toasting each other with champagne; Arthur Spitzer with Edana Romney, Muriel Slatkin and Ricardo Pascal; and a group of precieuses who like to refer to themselves as “the real socialites.”

In the crowd at Chasen’s on Friday night--Cary and Barbara Grant with Irving and Mary Lazar; Helen and Richard Wolford in from their home in Maui; Diana Ross wearing a shimmery silver coat.

Sunday afternoon, Dr. William H.D. Hornaday of the United Church of Religious Science officiated at the marriage of Sandra Marshall and television newscaster Jerry Dunphy. And among those present for the joining of hands were the bride’s 14-year-old son, Robert Wilstead (he’s giving his mother away); the bride’s father, Bob Marshall; Margaret Marshall, mother of the bride; a pride of Dunphys, including Jerry Dunphy Jr.; John and Sally Severino; Tawny and John Schneider; Dr. Morton and Shelby Jacobs; the Paul Moyers; Al Sharif Omar Almandily; Mike and Linda Curb and their daughters, and Lee and Michael Srednick.