Double the Pleasure for Rainbow Guild

Everything’s coming up rainbows for the Rainbow Guild and the Amie Karen Cancer Fund for Children and the Amie Karen Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Not one event, but two.

Actresses Alana Stewart, Susan Blakely, Constance McCashin, Adrienne Barbeau and Troy Beyer have agreed to model for “Spring Rainbows,” the annual membership luncheon and fashion show that Susan Furstman and Maxine Moshay are organizing for May 14 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton. The California Mart Fashion Office will preview international designer evening wear featuring Diane Freis, Estevez, B. Alan, C. Randall Brooks, Sister Max, Casadei, Claire’s Collection, Kevan Hall, Diane Samandi, Mercedes & Adrienne, and Sedrak Balian. Somper Furs of Beverly Hills will participate.

President Jennifer Goddard of the Rainbow executive board, and Janice Wallace, Sherry Nussbaum, Nancy Hildebrand, Jan Block, Karen Todman and Erica Lowy are involved in adding to the $5 million they’ve already raised for patient treatment.

But Patty Grubman and Estherly Reifman are focusing on “Passport to Dreams.” That’s the Amie Karen Cancer Fund’s gala dinner-dance May 24 on the lot of 20th Century Fox. The proceeds will provide 10 days of camp in August for children with cancer. Rafer Johnson, Connie Stevens and Ted McGinley will be spotlighted for their contributions to Camp Rainbow’s campers. Sue Kogen, fund president, Candace Weisz, Susan Whitmore and Leslie Schneiderman are top planners.

Rancho Los Amigos Foundation’s first Amistad (Friendship) Award Dinner on May 31 in the Crystal Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel is shaping into a gala: Brandon Tartikoff, president of NBC Entertainment, is chairman of the festivities; Betty White, star of the NBC series “The Golden Girls,” will be saluted for her “many years of dedicated service”; and California First Lady Mrs. George Deukmejian and Supervisor Peter Schabarum are honorary co-chairmen. Johnny Grant, the Emmy award-winning vice president of public affairs for KTLA, will be master of ceremonies.

The Bel-Air Country Club celebrates its 60th anniversary with a ball May 15. Kenny Sheldon and his “Swing and String” orchestra will provide the big band sounds plus the romantic violins.

More than 700 Californians danced to Tex Beneke, were stirred by the U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, and heard baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth and former congressman and Olympic hero Bob Mathias lauded for their philanthropic efforts at the Marine Scholarship Ball at the Century Plaza. Gen. P. X. Kelley, commandant of the Marine Corps, was there. The result is $110,000 for scholarships for the children of active and former Marines.

Invitations are out for the “Elegant Ladies of the Eighties” luncheon and fashion show May 19 at the Beverly Hilton benefiting the Pacific Multiple Sclerosis Research Foundation and Interplast, Inc. A crowd recently joined Grand Echelon for Multiple Sclerosis honorary chairman Marilyn Hilton and Interplast honorary chairman Kathy Hilton at a kickoff invitation-addressing party at the Hilton’s “Colby Mansion” in Beverly Hills. GEMS chairman Naida Barnes was there, as was Interplast chairman Shirley Anderson. At the luncheon, Elizabeth Arden will show Rome couture.

Summer gardens look fresh and perky, especially Nancy Munger’s in Hancock Park. At least that’s what all the Hancock Park Garden Club members were saying this week. Polly Goodan, Mary Crary, Pauline Ellis, Mary Hawley, Cynthia Mitchel and Marilyn Duque were all bidding big on the hanging baskets, braided ficus and Tony Liebig’s copper flamingo garden sculpture. More in on the fun were Sally Brant, Brooke Young, Iris Craddock, Jo Kroger, Clyde Lockie, Lynn Evans, Sally Keon, Mrs. Holmes Tuttle, Lynn Shafer, and Betty McLaughlin.

If the weather cooperates, supporters for the Oralingua School for the Hearing Impaired will feast on a “Picnic at Pickfair” on May 18, then sit back and listen to the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra (a group of 75 physician-musicians) perform. The afternoon honors Cesar Romero; Jerry Buss is master of ceremonies. Action host Norm Crosby will assume duties after the wine-and-cheese reception.

Rocco C. Siciliano, chairman of the executive committee of Ticor, receives the American Heritage Award from the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith Western States Development Office at a dinner party Tuesday at the Century Plaza. Prior to joining Ticor, he was undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 1969 to 1971.

An SRO crowd of 4,000 is assured Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for the marathon 38th annual Women’s Luncheon of the Sportsmen’s Club for the City of Hope. Muriel Lilien and Barbara Stevens are collaborating as co-chairmen; Papillon will present the fashion extravaganza. Barbara Stevens is confident that the group will meet its goal of $200,000. More planners are Barbara Katz, Mary Fineman, Penny Teitler, and Marilyn Schnair. Proceeds go to cancer and leukemia research.

Founders for Diabetic Research is a unique City of Hope support group inasmuch as its founding members are either diabetics or have family members who are. Such is the case with Esperanza Ball co-chairmen Sandy (she is a diabetic) and Irv Pomerantz. They’ll be center stage Saturday at the Century Plaza Hotel Tower along with Shirley Jones, who entertains. Each year the Founders present the “Founder of Hope Award.” This year it goes to Bob Chandler, professional football star turned television host (“Two on the Town”). His co-host, Melody Rogers, will join the celebrities in applause. Iris and Gene Rothstein are dinner chairmen. Sandy V. Durko, Chandler’s former USC classmate, is honorary dinner chairman.

The Natural History Museum put fish in the centerpiece flower bowls--real estate developer J. Paul Fox will put seals in his Malibu pool when he turns his villa over to Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House for a benefit next Sunday. Lions and tigers (accompanied by trainers) will be on the grounds, plus a Las Vegas casino, and Robin Leach to film and document it all. Winners in the charity drawing will be immediately (we’re told) whisked off to Las Vegas in a Caesar’s Palace luxury jet with Fox and celebrities.

May events are extensive to celebrate the new Campbell Hall gymnasium/performing arts/classroom complex. Saturday directors hosted the dedication ceremony for the Campbell Hall Jubilee, the finale in the $2.6-million capital campaign, which includes the grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation for a physics laboratory. The Right Rev. Oliver B. Garver Jr., suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, was dedication speaker. The inauguration of the theater will include two evenings of musical dinner theater. The culminating celebration comes May 27 at the Jubilee Ball on campus. Susan (Mrs. Scott) McComas is chairman, transforming the gym into a glittering wonderland.