Annenbergs to Host Dinner for the Deutsches on Friday

Former Ambassador to the Court of St. James Walter Annenberg and Lee Annenberg host a friendship dinner Friday for their very good and longtime chums Harriet and Armand Deutsch.

ROYALTY: Wendell Niles Jr. and his wife Nels hosted a party at Jimmy’s for Prince Albert of Monaco, here to plan with Niles the 1989 Monte Carlo Royal Tennis Grand Prix. We hear he was seated between Joanna Kerns and Linda Evans and charmed Bernie and Yolanda Kopell, John and Julie Forsythe and Ashok Amatrash with Veronica Hamel and Willie Gault.

COCKTAIL DISCUSSIONS: Honorary dinner chairmen Barbara and Marvin Davis and Marylou and Cornelius V. Whitney and dinner co-chairmen Susan and Derk Zimmerman will host a cocktail meeting late today at the Bistro Gardens to discuss the 1988 Gold Medal Award dinner at the Beverly Wilshire. Mary Ann Mobley and Gary Collins will be honored at the Oct. 18 event. Also in the forefront of planning are co-chairman Wallis Annenberg and Howard Banchik, president of the Greater Los Angeles Board of the National Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis.

DEBUTING: Pretty Victoria Yust has taken over the chief public relations position at the Beverly Wilshire, and is looking forward to the reopening of the Ballroom in all its remodeled refinement.

BY THE BAY: Harold and Winnie Voegelin and the International Commerce Council of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and the Protocol Foundation of Orange County are adrift in plans for the bay cruises and luncheon surrounding the 12th annual lawn party Sept. 4. The event at the Voegelins’ Harbor Island Beach residence will honor the Los Angeles Consular Corps.

NEWMAN AWARDS: The 1988 Scott Newman Drug Abuse Prevention Award for outstanding television programming will be presented Monday at a dinner in the Ballroom of the Four Seasons, according to Jackie McDonald, director of the Scott Newman Center. The award--a collaborative effort of the center, the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences--was established to encourage and reward creative and informative television programming about drugs. Writers, directors, producers and networks will be honored. In addition, the writer of the winning program in each category will receive a $10,000 cash prize.

AT DEL MAR: Barbara Harper, the vivacious wife of Del Mar Thoroughbred Club general manager and executive vice president Joseph W. Harper, hosted her annual luncheon in the Directors Room for the wives of jockeys who ride at the seaside track. . . . Gentlemen will be donning their morning dress with top hat for British Airways’ Ascot Day at the races in the infield Friday. It’s an invitational affair with an English menu of tarts, scones, brewed black tea, sherry and watercress sandwiches, not to mention champagne to toast the Queen. Two days later, the English Speaking Union will hold its inaugural day at the races, bringing in dozens of Rolls-Royces, and yes, lot of hats and flowered dresses for more Ascot-themed fun.

TOGETHER: Dr. Dorothy I. Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women, and the Black Family Reunion Celebration co-chairs, Assemblywoman Maxine Waters and Danny Bakewell, president of the Brotherhood Crusade, host a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Afro American Museum Plaza in Exposition Park. Honored will be sponsors and friends of the celebration.

RIGHT CIRCLES: “We’ve been through a lot of this together,” penned former Los Angeles Times society editor Jody Jacobs for one chum as she autographed copies of her first novel, “The Right Circles.” Indeed, chat about the book centered on who was in, who was out, and who was Lillie and who was Bart? Many of those at the party Madame Sylvia Wu planned as a salute to Jody and a mini-benefit for Loyola Marymount University (about $11,000 was raised) were mentioned by real name. Like Jacques Camus of the Westwood Marquis, who hosted a cocktail party for the author the evening before. And Jayne and Henry Berger and Herbert and Juli Hutner, friends of Jody and her husband Barney Leason. But Madame Wu is Jade Cheng. Buzzwords--Cartier, Flower Fashions, Gucci, Hermes, Marlborough, Jimmy’s--create circular giddiness twined with the racy plot. As for the party, everyone was giddy about Jody--co-chairs Dale Snodgrass and Sachi Irwin (who read the book in one sitting), pretty Fiorenza Falzone Courtright, Virginia and Gerald Oppenheimer, Father Maurice Chase (chosen for the invocation), Joan and John Quinn (both gave tributes), Vidal and Jeanette Sassoon (she in the shortest of skirts), Marcia and Larry Israel, Sybil Brand and Arthur W. Bloom, dean of Loyola’s College of Communications and Fine Arts.

SAVE THE DATE: The Los Angeles Philanthropic Foundation board of directors and president Robert A. Houghton and Bee Nassour say to save Nov. 2 for their 37th annual award dinner. It honors Texas businessman H. Ross Perot. He’ll not only speak, but receive the “Outstanding American Award.”

KEEPING UP: The Stanton McDonald-Wright WEPA murals depicting the history of man and technology are currently in storage at the Smithsonian Institution. But they’re soon to be installed in the Santa Monica Airport’s new Donald Douglas Museum, which will have a program embracing the leading edge of art and aviation history. Thus, SMARTS (Santa Monica ARTS) was flying high the other evening, raising funds for the restoration, dining on cuisine previewing the new Bruce Marder DC-3 Restaurant and dancing to the Western swing of Sky King and the Radio Ranch Straight Shooters. Funds also will be used to purchase art for the lobby of the new administration building designed by Solberg & Lowe. Peter Alexander, Karl Ciesluk, Ron Pippin, Sylvia Gentile and Will Nettleship are artist competition finalists.

GOLDENOPOLY: The Beverly Hills Lions Club is pretty smart: It owns the Beverly Hills Goldenopoly game, introduced this week at the Twenty/20 Club in the Shubert Theatre. Somewhat like Monopoly, the stylized game features Beverly Hills merchants on playing board spaces and personalities (like Elizabeth Taylor, Charlton Heston) on chance cards. As tie-ins with Beverly Hills’ 75th anniversary, the Chamber of Commerce has named it the official board game of 1988 and the Lions are roaringly raising funds for children and senior citizens with hearing, sight, speech, drug and diabetes disabilities. The game sells for $34.99, has a printing of 5,000 and, according to Lions chief John Roberts, should be in specialty stores (particularly in Beverly Hills) Saturday.