Horse Show Will Benefit Childrens Hospitalof L.A.
The Peninsula Committee of Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles is all smiles: They’re painting and prepping for the Portuguese Bend National Horse Show at the Empty Saddle Club in Rolling Hills Estates on Sept. 13-15.
Tiniest tots to grandparents, even great-grandparents, are white-washing fences. Husbands and sons are putting up booths, installing fences, pounding stakes, driving tractors. They’re “making miracles happen,” which happens to be Horse Show Chairman Mrs. David Smith’s theme song. Before it’s over, this year’s committee and friends will have logged 14,000 hours of fund raising.
All this enthusiasm is with good cause: During the last 28 years the committee, headed this year by Mrs. Morgan Moore, has raised and donated more than $1 million to Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles. That’s with a committee that’s 40 members strong and a lot of love and support from 46 sustaining members and their families.
This year, members raised some logic: How many New Yorkers have never seen a Broadway play? How many Texans have never seen the Alamo? How many Arizonans have never seen the Grand Canyon? And, they ask, how many Californians have never seen a horse show? So, they’re suggesting, come on down to the shady trees in the rolling hills of Palos Verdes Peninsula for a country fair atmosphere, an American hot dog and Pam Gimple’s smooth-running horse show. Twenty-six events including children’s hunter and jumper classes are scheduled the first day. Saturday’s show begins with junior western and amateur hunters. Sunday’s show features 32 classes of professional junior and amateur riders.
The committee celebrates with more than 700 guests at the Saturday night supper--a true hoedown barbecue with country and Western music by the Floyd Country Boys.
Among those making it happen are Mmes. Gerald Biggins, Jack Boyt, Mark Choate, Dal A. Corsaro, William Davisson, David Diestel, Wally Durham, John Fox, Edgar M. Gillenwaters, Q. A. Guthrie, Donald L. Hanley, Ronald W. Jones, Edward Kennedy, William Latimer, Patrick O’Brien, Jim Prock, Michael B. Schoettle, Chadwick Smith, John R. Wells and Gary Winterrowd.
In San Juan Capistrano, they’re thinking English. Antiquarian G. R. Durenberger, president of Libros Y Artes de San Juan Capistrano (the library and cultural center), is collaborating with Colefax and Fowler of London, synonymous with the best of English taste, to stage a decorative arts exhibition Nov. 10-Dec. 21.
It’s an “At Home in an English Country House” exhibition of four country house rooms, designed by Miss Imogen Taylor, senior partner of Colefax and Fowler, which has decorated beautiful homes for international and royal clientele and the National Trust.
Antiques to be displayed will be lent by California collectors Carl and Richard Yeakel, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Leventhal and Melvin Martin. Look for the best.
New York designer Mario Buatta is assisting Miss Taylor in the show, which Gep Durenberger says is the first of its kind in America.
There’s a high tea opening for members and guests Nov. 10. And Miss Taylor and Buatta have agreed to speak at three fund-raising events. On Nov. 11 and 12 she will present “A Half Century of Design,” illustrating 50 years of English decoration by Colefax and Fowler, then lead guests through the exhibition. That’s a donation of $25. On Nov. 11, both she and Buatta host a party “At Home in an English Country House,” with a tab of $50.
Elton Rule, campaign chairman for the Permanent Charities Committee of the Entertainment Industries, has announced the industry has pledged $2,097,421, $300,000 more than last year.
Lady Wright, wife of Sir Oliver Wright, the British ambassador in Washington, will be honorary chairman for the “Moonlight Ball,” which the British Home in California, Ltd., hosts Sept. 7. It’s a fund-raiser to aid the building fund. Dining and dancing, black-tie, are the key words, says Mrs. Robert Schnegg, president. The Swing Kings will play for dancing.
Locally the personable Elizabeth Ballentyne, wife of Donald Ballentyne, the British consul general, will be honorary chairman.
Three art galleries--Mekler, Circle and Ankrum--on La Cienega are creating a sort of trio con brio art auction this evening in association with Art Expo CAL, the international art market exposition at the L.A. Convention Center on Sept. 6-9.
“Dynasty’s” Emma Samms is the celebrity host for the affair benefitting the Muscular Dystrophy Assn.
The progressive event begins with cocktails at the Circle Gallery, moves on to the Mekler Gallery for a cold buffet served by Le Cou Cou and continues at Ankrum for dessert and coffee.
Through it all, guests ($40 per person) will bid on an eclectic mix of works by Dali, Peter Shire, Marc Chagall, Henry Moore, Henry Fonda, Tony Bennett, Bill Mack and others.
Poetry, music and art by Minnesotans and Californians will be featured in “Oh Black and Unknown Bards” at the Museum of African American Art at 3 p.m. next Sunday.
The program, sponsored by the International Black Writers and Artists is a tribute to poet Don Gates (“I Thought I Heard a Baby Cry”), who died of cancer in 1984. Proceeds go to the American Cancer Society.
Publisher-poet Leon Knight, singer Isora Iverson and photographer Terry Harrison will also be featured. In addition, IBWA poets will read their works. The event is in conjunction with the Black California Women Artists exhibit.
Artes de El Camino, a support group for the arts at El Camino College, benefits from next Sunday’s grand opening celebration of the new Galleria at South Bay.
Patricia Dreizler, Artes president, says funds will be used to bring celebrities such as Ella Fitzgerald, Marcel Marceau and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, to the South Bay area.
Loreen Arbus, independent producer who has scripted “Angie,” “Lou Grant” and “General Hospital,” is the star Tuesday evening for the Women in Show Business, meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Hyatt Hotel on Sunset.
At the very top: The Food Industries Circle for the City of Hope has a new president--Mrs. Ralph (Sally) Frank of Beverly Hills. It’s the first time this prominent medical center support group has seen fit to name a woman to the major post. She succeeds Fred McLaren, president of Hughes Markets. She’s been married 15 years to Ralph Frank Jr., longtime executive vice president of Lawry’s Foods. She’s also a founder of Olympic National Bank. . . .
Mary Connor is the new president of Casa Colina Auxiliary, which aids rehabilitative medicine in Pomona. . . .
Long Beach resident Bryan (Whitey) Littlefield was honored at a reception at the Center Theater in Long Beach on his appointment as a member of the California Arts Council. . . .
You better believe it: “Behind Every Famous Person Is a Healthy Sandwich.” That’s the name of Roman Meal’s fall recipe collection featuring recipes by celebrity mothers such as Margaret Boone, Martha Selleck and Diana Douglas.
About 80 mothers and celebrity children and their friends are expected Aug. 26 at noon at the Hotel Bel-Air for the Roman’s Meal Mothers’ Benefit. It’s a double-header, aiding the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Naturally, the menu is sandwiches, using, what else, Roman Meal. Diana Douglas (mother of Michael Douglas), Rose Baio (Scott Baio), Melba Mooney (Susan Howard) and Chip Fields (Kim Fields) will share secrets.
Helen Matthaei, wife of Roman Meal Chief Executive Officer Chuck Matthaei, is participating in the cause.
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