Frontiere and Friends Fly to Rams Opener

Cheerio! Several of Orange County’s smart set have flown to London with L.A. Rams owner Georgia Frontiere for her team’s exhibition game with the Denver Broncos Sunday at Wembley Stadium.

Among those receiving L.A. Rams tote bags stocked with souvenir goodies on the flight over were Susan and Timothy Strader; James and Mary Roosevelt and daughter, Becky, former county Supervisor Ralph B. Clark; Beverly and Paul Salata; Gene and Jackie Autry, and Debbie and Donny Osmond.

“Georgia and the team are staying at the Mayfair,” said Timothy Strader, a Newport Beach attorney and vice chairman of the Orange County Performing Arts Center, from his room at Hotel Brittania Thursday. “The Denver Broncos are staying at the Inter-Continental on Hyde Park.”

Tuesday night, Frontiere hosted friends for dinner and dancing at the Hurlingham Club. “Everybody who flew over with Georgia was there,” Strader said. “The Rams cheerleaders did a few routines, and Georgia visited each table to greet everyone. Lots of food and dancing.”

When the group is not pub-crawling or theatergoing--Strader called “Phantom of the Opera,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical at Her Majesty’s Theater in London, “probably the most amazing production I’ve ever seen”--they’re shopping, he said.

On Wednesday, Strader said the expedition to the world’s toniest department store, Harrod’s, “felt like Nordstrom at South Coast Plaza-- everybody was there.”

And the weather has been ideal. “72-degree sunshine,” Strader said. Jolly good.

BUFFET TIME--Baron of black bear, buffalo stew, venison loin, alligator en brochette, and--apologies to Leos-- lion, if it arrives from Kenya on time.

Sound like a groaning board out of “Clan of the Cave Bear”? Actually, the items are just part of a game-and-then-some buffet to be served in the Grand Teton Room at Ambrosia Restaurant in South Coast Plaza Town Center on Aug. 16, when 125 arts lovers will gather to raise funds for Arts on the Green, a showcase of local artists scheduled for Sept. 20.

Also on the menu: a whodunit staged by actors from South Coast Repertory.

Tickets are available at $60 per person. For reservations, call (714) 432-7559. Toren Segerstrom and Diane Pritchett are event co-chairmen.

BACHELORS FOR SALE--The Orange County Chapter of the March of Dimes is looking for 20 “excruciatingly eligible bachelors,” a sporting bunch of singles willing to put themselves on the auction block as hot dates for its Bachelor Bid benefit on Nov. 9.

Call (714) 631-8700 or (714) 662-2665 if you’re willing to stand before a sellout crowd of 750 women (the swooning attendance anticipated). Applications are available through Sept. 30.