Halloween Broadcast a UNICEF Treat

This audience will be shivering in sequins--or witchy garb--Halloween Night at the Sheraton Premiere. The U.S. Committee for UNICEF and the Jeffrey Sudikoffs are cordially inviting a crowd ($100 per ticket) for the 1985 Halloween Broadcast and the fourth annual live radio drama (performed on the air before a live audience) benefit for UNICEF.

Because of the African crisis, this broadcast promises to reflect the urgency of UNICEF’s work. National UNICEF Day chairman Cicely Tyson will introduce the evening. Three greats in the horror genre--writers Stephen King, Richard Matheson and William F. Nolan--will originate the terror, and the cast includes Jeff B. Cohen, Danny Cooksey, Casey and Jean Kasem, June Lockhart, Gary Owens, Lynn Redgrave and Tom Wopat.

Jeff Sudikoff and Mat Tombers are executive producers. John Clark will direct, Brenda Wilson will produce, and Dennis Etchison is adapting the stories.

Last year’s broadcast was carried nationally on 425 stations, covering nine of the top 10 markets, according to Candy Miller, Southern California director for the U.S. Committee for UNICEF. Funds will be raised two ways: from pledges to a toll-free telephone number and from proceeds of tickets.

After the broadcast, members of the audience will get on their brooms for buffet and dancing and shiver the night away.

There’s good reason that the Associates for Troubled Children has made $2.5 million over the past decade to help build a future free from substance abuse for youth: Members stage an irresistible auction for the $200-paying guests who know a good cause when they see one.

At the Century Plaza on Nov. 8, the pressure will be strong to bid high at the party president Joann Magidow and chairman of the board Ann Andrus are putting together.

A sneak preview of the exciting items Carol Carlson and Bobbe Aubert (auction and reception co-chairmen) have cornered gives a clue to what will be a special evening: a Christian Dior white fox coat, a 19-foot Sea Ray boat, first-class round trips for two to Paris and Hawaii, vintage Lafite-Rothschild, a week’s stay in Jamaica at Lady Sarah Churchill’s estate, a Model A Ford, a day of basketball with Magic Johnson, one week on L’Argonaut French Barge and so much more.

This is the 11th annual, begun by Stephanie Rosenbloom.

More working the charity are Jackie Rosenberg, Ann Simley, Dodo Gayle, Ruta Lee, Maxine Woodman, Annabelle Wasserstein and Pat Love.

Recently at a cocktail party in Beverly Hills, The associates honored writers of outstanding television programs that draw attention to drugs and alcohol. Receiving the fifth annual Scott Newman Award for Drug Abuse Prevention was an episode of “The Adventures of Fat Albert” called “The Runner.” Writer Evelyn A. R. Gabai bested 47 entries.

Mrs. Robert F. Niven and Mrs. Robert R. Bloomingdale head a dinner committee of 37 planning “An Evening With Santa Catalina” on Oct. 29 at the California Club.

Sister Carlotta and trustees will come down from the 35-acre campus overlooking Monterey Bay to entice alumnae and parents to give to the school’s very first capital campaign--a goal of $6 million.

The Catholic boarding school, which has educated high school girls for more than 30 years, currently is one of California’s largest independent schools with an enrollment of 521.

Guests will hear from James J. Didion of Los Angeles and Pebble Beach (his daughter is a day student), who is chairman of the board; from Mrs. Andre de Baubigny, a San Francisco trustee who will talk of endowments, and from Sister Carlotta. Goals include faculty housing, endowment, a new dormitory and a new gymnasium. We hear $3 million is pre-pledged in advance gifts.

Among supporters will be Thomas P. Mullaney, the Robert McKim Bells, Mrs. Alfred Bloomingdale, the Robert R. Bloomingdales, the James G. Boswells II, the Henry A. Brauns, the John G. Brauns, the Edmund H. Sheas Jr., the Warren B. Williamsons, the Hugh L. MacNeils, the Paul G. Johansings, the Douglas C. Greggs, the Cary Grants, the Freeman Gates, the John Dillons, the A. L. Crowes Jr., Louise G. Garland, Cyndy Braun and Suzanne Dragge.

“A Tribute to the Honorable James A. Cobey” headlines the sixth annual Douglas A. Salem Memorial Scholarship Fund Dinner for Southwestern University School of Law on Thursday at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

Panelists for the evening dedicated to the justice will be Joseph A. Ball, former Gov. Edmund G. Brown, former state Sen. Fredrick S. Farr and Joan Dempsey Klein, presiding judge, Court of Appeal. Master of ceremonies will be Chief District Judge Manuel L. Real, U.S. Court of Appeals.

Proceeds will aid young law students in need in memory of the late Professor Salem, a Southwestern faculty member who lost his life in an automobile accident in 1979 at the age of 32.