Coronet Debs Step Out at Bel-Air Club

Coronet Debutantes to be presented Nov. 30 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton are the focus of the Los Angeles Chapter National Charity League’s announcement luncheon Aug. 8 at the upper club of the Bel-Air Bay Club. There are 31 debutantes this season.

Ball chairman Mrs. George Acker will greet the girls, along with Mrs. Philip S. Kamm Jr., president. Her youngest daughter Joan is a debutante.

Mrs. David Payne Dyer is announcement luncheon chairman. Mrs. Gabriel Minotta is lining up former debutantes for a fashion show to give new debs a clue to what’s coming.

Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston has given the nod to be honorary chairman for the Women in Show Business’ Silver Anniversary Celebrity benefit ball. It’s Oct. 19 at the Century Plaza.

Co-chairmen Linda Desiante and Scherr Lillico are skipping their summer tans to score the star-studded dinner-dance and show. Funds will aid disadvantaged children in need of reconstructive or restorative surgery.

Sherry Tischler is WSB president, an organization of achievers--women producers, actresses, public relations representatives, controllers, secretaries and administrative assistants. Originally they were known as the Girls Friday of Show Business. Call it progress.

Actors Robert Clary and Bruce Weitz will receive the second annual Humanitarian and Achievement Award from the Young Adults Division of the Jewish Federation Council Saturday evening at its fifth annual fund-raiser, Gala ’85. The setting will be the Ports O’Call restaurant in San Pedro.

Sheila Zwirn is chairman.

Civic and business leaders are joining the Women’s and Children’s Crisis Shelter for a major fund-raiser Aug. 24 at Gateway Plaza Holiday Inn in La Mirada. “Le Cabaret!” will be a dinner-dance featuring professional entertainers. Alice McFadden is chairman; Mary E. Hanson is writing and directing “Le Cabaret!”

Tickets are $150, $100 and $75 for the California Museum Foundation benefit Tuesday evening at the New California Museum of Science and Industry’s Mitsubishi IMAX Theater.

“The Dream Is Alive,” an insider’s view of America’s Space Shuttle program narrated by Walter Cronkite, will be seen on a screen five stories high and 70 feet wide. It features some spectacular in-flight footage filmed by 14 astronauts on three missions in 1984.

The reception begins at 7 p.m.

The Cultural Foundation, San Fernando Valley, is moving right along. The nonprofit group, organized to develop arts facilities for both ARTS PARK LA and the Warner Performing Arts Square, has elected three new members to its board, according to general manager Luke M. Bandle and chairman H. F. “Bert” Boeckmann. They’re Sanford Paris, Warren S. Reid and Dennis Smith.

Dr. John Tarr, newly elected president of the Pasadena Symphony Assn., has announced 23 new board members. He welcomed them at an annual meeting at the La Canada home of Mr. and Mrs. Myrl Scott.

Among the new ones are Billie Bowlby, Ginny Cushman, Renee Hanson, Charlene Liebau, John Maloney, Doris Pankow, Wayne Shilkret, Oliva Varga and Alyce Williamson.

Also serving on the board, representing the symphony’s auxiliary organizations, will be Robin Stafford (for the Symphony Juniors) and Helen Tuthill (for the Women’s Committee of the Pasadena Symphony).

The Law Guild of Beverly Hills won the first place award for volunteer services awarded by the American Lawyers Auxiliary, at their concurrent meeting with the American Bar Assn. held recently in Washington.

According to president Lynda Schlifkin, the award was bestowed for the Law Guild’s much-praised courthouse tour video. For 14 years the guild has promoted court tour programs, but this year it undertook the task of having a professional company film an entire court tour. It is to be used as a training tool for new court docents and to aid other organizations interested in establishing a similar program. The film also will be available on a rental basis.

Transitional time for officers: New officers of the Nine O’Clock Players of the Assistance League are “brushing up their Shakespeare” during the summer. They’ll be headed by chairman Mrs. Roger Engemann, and Mmes. John Gay, Everett Laybourne, William Hildeburn, Chase Morgan, Joseph L. Kahn and John William Gaines.

Board member Mrs. Raymond Hunter was honored at the recent installation for providing the most volunteer hours. She’s the talented pianist who provides music for all the performances of this children’s theater, now in its 54th year.

Speaking of music, Mrs. Thomas Fauble of San Marino has named a fellow San Marinan, Mrs. Joseph Gorman, to serve as the auditions director of the Metropolitan Opera Western Regional Auditions. Mrs. Theodore E. Drake will head the Los Angeles district auditions.

The organization is committed to finding exceptional young opera singers and assisting them in their careers by presenting them in the auditions. Tryouts will be Oct. 24-26 at USC.; winners will advance to the Western regional auditions Nov. 15-17, also at USC.

Two Atlantic Recording Corp. executives--president Doug Morris and vice president Paul Cooper--have joined the national advisory committee for the McDonald Center for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Treatment at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla.

Mrs. Andrew Cooper of Sherman Oaks received a pretty spray of flowers, taking over the presidency of the Volunteer League of the San Fernando Valley from Mrs. John Ueberroth of Tarzana. Her jolly band of helpers include Mmes. Marshall Lloyd, Desi Heathwood, Ronald Wheat, Richard Terzian and Boyd Reeves.