Bowl Support Group to Host 1st Event

‘Tis the season--Hollywood Bowl. And there’s a new group, Friends of the Hollywood Bowl, whose purpose is to develop a broad base of support for the Bowl and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which makes music there. Also, to create a note of companionship.

Quietly, Friends, chaired by DeAnne Hayes, has been collecting memberships. They’ve already amassed 330 memberships (representing 600 people).

Though the official Hollywood Bowl season opens July 7, Friends will host their inaugural reception Wednesday at Volunteer Cottage when the Bowl stages one of its preview concerts and a “From Russia With Pops” program. The evening calls for picnic suppers in boxes, laughter, and listening to David Zinman conduct Glinka’s “Overture to Russlan and Ludmila,” Rachmaninov’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.

Also involved are Vera Panosian of the Hollywood Bowl Volunteers and Louise Peebles, events chair.

DEB SUCCESS: When the Pasadena Guild of Childrens Hospital was launched 26 years ago by Ginie Braun, members didn’t necessarily anticipate they would be netting $500,000 annually for their cause. But that was only a facet of the fun evening at the June Debutante Ball at the Beverly Wilshire.

Led across the dance floor by Men’s Floor Committee chairman Louis Jones, president Mrs. Jack Douglas Whitehead spoke of ever higher financial goals to support the hospital. It was a pretty ball, the Grand Ballroom flowered by Jacob Maarse of Pasadena as a backdrop for the presentation of 20 debutantes. And, it wasn’t all that different from 26 years ago, Mrs. Richard Baker, grandmother of debutante Elizabeth Baker, recalled, when she was ball decorations co-chairman and 30 debs were honored.

Not all the net, however, comes from the ball; a huge amount is generated each October from the guild’s Treasure and Trivia Sale and from their solicitation of ball benefactors and sponsors. Ball chairman Mrs. Warren Jefferson Arnett and debutante chairman Mrs. Franklin Hoover Simmons (Rosemary Simmons is mayor of San Marino) polished and polished the party.

When debs and escorts seemed to evaporate about 11 p.m., Isabel Arnett ordered Michael Paige’s orchestra to play ‘70s music and, presto, debs returned. Some, like Elizabeth Baker, and her parents, Danford and Joan Baker, had been in the foyers having their photographs snapped with family friends including the Stephen J. Cannells, Diana Collins, Jean Crabtree (whose husband was in South Africa), John and Louise Bryson, Jim and Tink Cheney, Julie and Art Pizzinat, Chris and Jane Popovich, as well as with escort George Arcaris II and stags Mark Baglietto, Sheldon Pizzinat and Warren Techentin.

Committee members and their husbands dancing the night away included Cynthia and Sam Coleman, Pat and Charles Bakaly, Jean and Boyd Higgins, Nancy and Frank Payne, Bonny and Brice Toole, Kelsey and Brad Hall, and Jane and William Taverner.

Daughters and fathers who had the first waltz before the escorts cut in included Jennifer Angeloff and Dann Angeloff, the Bakers, Ann and William Baxter, Kelly and William Bedford, Megan and James Boswell, Margaret and David Cunningham (it was his 12th and last deb daughter presentation; four daughters times three deb balls--”all magnificent”), Marianne and Richard Dick, Allyson and Jonathan Fogg, Lauren and John Jones, Kristin and John King, Devon and Douglas Martin, Katherine and Mitchell Milias, Cheryl and Dr. Stanley Morgan, Rosalind and Dr. William Roberts, Kathleen and Joseph Ryan, Jennifer and David Schultz, Susan and Donald Slavik, Lili and Angel Unamuno, Jennifer and Scott Wilcott, and Ronalee and Ronald Wilson.

REGALIA: White-tie and decorations, as well as black-tie, was the order for the first Los Angeles investiture of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta Western Assn., otherwise known as the Knights of Malta. Archbishop Roger Mahony presided over the afternoon investitute and mass at St. Charles Borromeo Church, North Hollywood, Friday when 27 new knights and dames were installed in the order. An evening reception and dinner at the Century Plaza topped the evening.

Ken Olsen is Knights of Malta chairman and George Gibbs vice chairman. Committee members are Hubert Laugharn, Margaret Spillane, Leonard de Grassy, Tom Fuentes, Mary Jane Von der Ahe, Thomas Smith and Gary Herman. The investiture has been held in San Francisco, but never before in Los Angeles.

UPSCALE: Actor Ricardo Montalban is honorary chairman for Women in Show Business’ 1987 Celebrity benefit ball Oct. 18 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton. Proceeds will go for reconstructive and restorative surgery for needy children.

PERSONALITIES: Shirley Turteltaub has been elected new SHARE (Share Happily and Reap Endlessly) president, and Dolores Naar has been re-elected chairwoman. New first vice presidents are Pam Korman and Roni Sue Malin. Corinna Fields and Samantha Faulkner will be second vice presidents. More on the board will be Bonnie Parker, Sandra Siegel, Yvonne Nelson, Joan Kardashian, Niki Dantine Bautzer, and Lynn Wilk.

ESCALATION: About 200 fans of Angel’s Flight, the crisis intervention center operated under the auspices of Catholic Charities, joined for the second annual awards presentation and gave board member Fletcher Hull the Angel’s Flight Humanitarian Award. He’s been chairman of the Shelter Committee. Angel’s Flight opens its third new facility, a 24-hour spot, in August in Westlake, to match locations on Skid Row and in Hollywood.

VENTURA GALA: Twelve young women from Ventura County were presented at the 30th annual Las Patronas Presentation Ball in the Embassy Suites Hotel in Oxnard. They are Brynn Brockett, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Donald Brockett; Nan Davis, the Robert Calder Davises Jr.; Leslie Horneck, the James George Connerys; Francine McKinny, the Walter McKinnys; Kimberley Milligan, the Michael Milligans; Heather Myers, the Dale Myers; Heather Nichols, Dr. and Mrs. Richard Nichols; Kerry Norman, the Richard Normans; Britt Olson, Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Olson; Heather Richmond, the John Richmonds; Theresa Spurr, the Ronald Spurrs; and Christine Tulberg, the Ellsworth Tulbergs.

TRAVELS: Mira Advani, vice president of the Los Angeles-Bombay Sister City board, plans to be in Europe the Fourth of July weekend with her two daughters as guests of Baron Charles de Montesquieu in Paris. They’ll travel to his vineyards in the village of Baron. He’s the descendant of philosopher Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, a contributor to the American Constitution. As part of the Bicentennial celebration of the American Constitution in September in Washington, Baron Charles will present a bust of his ancestor to the U.S. government, and Advani says it will be placed inside the Capitol next to Lafayette’s.