Stars Ready a ‘Dutch’ Treat for Reagan

We’re dealing here on a first-name basis.

As in “Francis Albert” and “Dutch.” Francis Albert is, of course, Sinatra, that incomparable entertainer. And Dutch is what they used to call Ronald Reagan during his school and sportscasting and movie days before, as Sinatra says, “he took that hifalutin job back East.”

Now here’s the story, as told by Francis Albert himself in a letter that serves as a super-cordial invitation to next Sunday’s “All Star Party for ‘Dutch’ Reagan.” The plans call for an early evening cocktail party, dinner catered by Chasen’s and then a full hour of “all star entertainment which will be taped for broadcast later in the month on CBS.” The marvelous part, adds our correspondent, is that “for the TV rights, CBS chips in with a large chunk of money which makes it possible for Variety Clubs to continue its noble work of caring for the underprivileged and handicapped children of the world regardless of race, creed or the family’s ability to pay.”

The President and First Lady, Sinatra continues, have embraced the idea and “have enthusiastically agreed to attend.” Sinatra will naturally be there along with a high star count that, so far, includes Charles Bronson, John Forsythe, Carol Burnett, Charlton Heston, Dean Martin, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, James Stewart, Robert Mitchum, Ben Vereen, Red Skelton, Gregory Peck, among a bushel more.

The whoop-de-doo for the President takes place at NBC Studios in Burbank, is black tie and the doors close at 5:30 p.m. Sharp!

It’s a movie fans of Danish-born writer Isak Dinesen should welcome with open arms. Based on her book, “Out of Africa,” the movie of the same name co-stars that dynamite pair Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. It’s a marriage obviously made in heaven.

And there’s more good news. Universal Pictures hosts the world premiere of “Out of Africa” on Dec. 10 at the Plitt Century Plaza Theatre as a benefit for St. John’s Hospital and Health Center of Santa Monica. St. John’s’ legion of supporters are happy as little clams about the whole thing.

Judy Ovitz is chairing the benefit and on her team serving as co-chairs are such powerhouse ladies as Nanci Denney, Marion Jorgensen, Betty Williams and Bonita Wrather. Virginia Zamboni is coordinating things on St. John’s side. And among those on the benefit premiere committee are Edie and Lew Wasserman, Katherine and Frank Price, Lorraine and Sidney Sheinberg, Marilyn McDaniel, Michael Ovitz, Shelli and Irving Azoff, Mary Hesburgh, Claire and Sydney Pollack, Sean Daniel and Pat Epstein.

Friends of the John Wayne Cancer Clinic will gather at Chasen’s next Sunday for a black-tie evening of dining and dancing to Joe Moshay’s Orchestra around a tall poinsettia tree. The hosts will be Nancy and Carroll O’Connor and the whole Wayne clan. And the special guest of honor is actress Ann Jillian. Jillian’s “attitude in dealing with her cancer,” says Joyce Green, the clinic’s executive director, “and making public her personal experience is truly inspirational.”

Among those expected to join in the partying are Ben, Bea and Joyce Isenberg (last year they donated $500,000 to the clinic), Maureen Womack, Jean Trousdale, Ricardo Montalban, Millicent and Robert Wise, Michael and Gretchen Wayne, Toni Wayne La Cava, “Falcon Crest’s” Susan Sullivan, Donna and Harve Rosen, Marissa and Errol Coughlan and Diane and Danny Feldman.

The Oriental dragons made their way down the aisles of the Goldwyn Theatre at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science and the drums and the gamelan orchestra lent a certain exotic appeal to the evening. Screening that night before 1,000 invited guests was “Passion Flower,” a CBS-TV movie filmed in Singapore which airs in January. After the screening the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board and Singapore Airlines staged a big party with a giant Oriental buffet in the Academy’s lobby.

The film’s director, Joseph Sargent, won the door prize--a trip to Singapore--but since he’d spent four months on location there he said “thank you” politely and returned the tickets for another drawing and another lucky winner. Some members of the cast who were there--Sargent’s wife, Caroline; Nicol Williamson, who flew in from Amsterdam; Barbara Hershey, who arrived from Indiana, and Bruce Boxleitner, whose very pregnant wife, Kitty, gave the evening an extra touch of excitement since the baby was long overdue. (Their boy, Lee David, was born a few days later.) Screenwriter (and publicist) Richard Guttman, a nervous wreck until the screening was over, was with his wife, Gisela, and their two daughters, Danielle and Monika. Gisela is curator for an upcoming show drawn from the art collection of the Kinsey Institute at the University of Indiana. More rubbing elbows--CBS’ Steve Mills and Nancy Bein, Emile Thai, Aloysius T. S. Lee, Michael and Pat York, Maureen Dean, Olavee Martin, Marianne Cronin, Gerhard Pilz, Lee Remick, Kelly Le Brock with beau Steve Siegal, singer Enrico Macias, Donna Mills, Michael Nouri with his fiancee Vicki Light, Interscope’s Patricia Clifford, and Horst Bucholtz.

Members of the County Museum of Art’s Modern and Contemporary Art Council will be swarming all over the Griffith Planetarium on Dec. 5, marveling at Halley’s Comet, dining on Rococo fare and dancing under a big tent. Elyse Grinstein and Freya Ivener are co-chairing the exciting evening, which will honor Maurice Tuchman, who has spent 20 years as senior curator of 20th-Century art at the museum, and raise funds for the MCAC Museum Acquisition Fund. Dress for stargazing and bring binoculars.

Not content with the December sighting of the comet, Elyse and her husband, Stanley, artist Chuck Arnoldi and a few other pals head for Australia in April to indulge in some more comet-spotting.

Tuesday night the oohs and aahs emanating from the Westwood Marquis party room could be heard out in the corridor. Alain and Laurence Mauboussin and Jacques Blanc were hosting a cocktail viewing of the

latest designs of Mauboussin, the jewelry firm founded in 1827 and now firmly ensconced on Paris’ ever-so-chic Place Vendome. Getting the most attention from some really expert jewelry fans like Frances and Happy Franklin, Jayne and Henry Berger, S. J. and Effie Gaido, Mr. and Mrs. Michael David, Michelle and Sheldon Mazur and Marcia and Larry Isreal was the mother of pearl and cabochon ruby necklace which had been finished just two days before the Mauboussins left Paris for Los Angeles. (If you need to ask the price, you can’t afford it.)

Patti Davis, the daughter of President and Mrs. Reagan, who is at work on a novel, stopped by early to take a fast look. Patti and husband, Paul Grilley, are Mauboussin fans. They bought her wedding band at the shop when they were on vacation in Paris. (The gold ring has a round diamond embedded between two bands of gray mother of pearl.) Jacques Camus and Wally Cedar circulated madly. Fred MacMurray and June Haver got the good news that the Mazurs will underwrite the 1986 Childhelp benefit just as they did in 1985. Erin Magnin, chic as ever in a black suit with kelly green blouse, chatted with Tom O’Leary, Agnes Anderson was with Rafael de Marchena and Count Hubert O’Brien escorted Princess Faiza. And there were more--the Henry Fosters, Elin Vanderlip and Lehman Katz, Patricia and Daniel Ryan, Peggie and Bob Bales, Betty Bose, the Macklin Butlers, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Childs, Helen Coffey, Matthew Bates, Father Maurice Chase (last week he and Loretta Young visited the women on Skid Row), the David Hamiltons, Sara O’Meara, Pascal and James Regan, Judy Quine with daughter Nina Franciosa, the Ronald Smiths and the Countess Franz Von Walderdorff (nee Lynette Treffinger), who has returned with her mother to Los Angeles.

The Social Scramble: “The Spirit of Love” is the theme for the Juniors of the Social Service Auxiliary’s 50th anniversary Candlelight Ball on Dec. 14 at the Beverly Hilton.

Looks like the Ma Maison lunch bunch has found another place to roost. Spotted lunching at the Bistro Garden on Wednesday afternoon--Richard Zanuck with Ingo Preminger, Otto’s brother; Greg Bautzer; Walter Matthau; Sidney Poitier; Stuart Whitman; Pierre Groleau. And lunching at the Bistro were Erlenne Perkins, Betty Adams, Beverly Morsey and Natalie Robinson.