Heralding Bowl Opening : Patroness Committee’s July Festivity Is Precursor to Opening
Details of the Hollywood Bowl Patroness Committee’s traditional garden dinner dance July 7 at the estate of Mollie and Ragnar Qvale will be revealed today at a luncheon at the home of Louise Jones.
Honored guests at the dance will be Ginny and Henry Mancini. The July festivity heralds the Hollywood Bowl opening gala for its 70th summer season July 9--with superstar violinist Itzhak Perlman and Soviet conductor Yuri Temirkanov.
PRETTY GARDENS: They bring out the best in us. And five gardens on the Friends of Robinson Gardens tour Friday also brought out record numbers--a meandering, inquisitive crowd that drove from site to site, looking at artistic lawns, trees, flower beds, pools, streams and vistas at five private gardens designed by Los Angeles landscape designers.
At their leisure, viewers stopped in at the Virginia Robinson estate in Beverly Hills for tea or lemonade and botanical observations.
The location also provided a twirl through the marketplace of garden accouterments--table settings, topiaries, books, furnishings--set up on the estate lawn by chic Southland vendors.
“We’re thrilled,” said Friends president Carol Mancino, overlooking the busy lawn with this year’s honorary chair, Lee Minnelli, who discussed the “friendship garden” of roses sent to her late husband Vincente while he was ill.
Nearby, co-chairs Karen Gould and Gail Andrews directed guests to the tea tables, while Friends founder Joan Selwyn, with Patty Turrentine, Claire Weiner, Susan Mettler and Helen Lambros, greeted friends and noted that proceeds will be used for restoration and maintenance of Robinson Gardens.
Those meanderers along the tour looked blissfully content:
Pat Stern, Mary Adams, Rosanne Sachson, Emily Peck, Sue Peck and her daughter Nancy Worthington. Hats were prevalent to screen the rays, on Lolette Starkey, Claudia McGuire, Gail Newman, Maileen Phillips, Lisa Merrins, Sharon Sistine and Michelle Maullin.
While landscape designer Richard Mosbaugh described “The English Country Garden” and breezes blew through the sycamores, a bird tweeted. Charlene Friedman exclaimed, “Oh, that’s a titmouse--plain.”
Everyone was quite impressed.
RUSSIAN: Posters, menus, invitations, labels, trademarks and book covers captivated first nightters Friday at the Art Center College of Design opening of “Russian Graphic Design Before the Revolution, 1880-1917.”
Warren Williamson, chairman of the board of trustees, and his wife Alyce, head of the fund-raising Art Center One Hundred, chose the occasion to honor donors and show off the college’s just-completed 47,000-square-feet building addition.
Art Center president David R. Brown and his wife Judy were at the front door to welcome donors.
Among the many:
Harry and Betsy Hathaway, who have established a memorial in the name of their late son Brian; Gordon and Connie Fish, Mary Alice and Richard Frank, Jim and Linda Dickason, Gloria and Ed Renwick, Kelsey and Brad Hall, Ed and Beverly Fitzgerald, Joni and Clark Smith, Michael and Jacqueline Tenzer, Lois and Chris Madison, Tim Walker, Lew Webb and his son Robert Webb, Gerhard and Sabine Steinle and Jean and Steve Parry.
KUDOS: To Donald G. Tronstein, to be named Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce citizen of the year Friday at the Beverly Hilton. . . .
To Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows, who received the Marco Polo Award at the Shangri La restaurant from the Volunteers of America Saturday. . . .
To O’Melveny & Myers attorney William W. Vaughn, to receive the Learned Hand Award from the American Jewish Committee next Thursday at the Beverly Hills Hotel. . . .
To David Velasquez, honored at the scholarship fund-raiser for Brentwood School at the Beverly Hilton. . . .
To Aaron Arden (Budd) Mizell and his wife Ruth for their gift of $1.2 million to the Palm Springs Senior Center. . . .
To artist Betye Saar, who was feted at the USC Friends of Fine Arts Masked Ball Friday, and knitwear designer Brenda French, to be feted by the Medical Center Aides for City of Hope today.
PAST PERFECT: At The Villa Narcissa in Rancho Palos Verdes, the statues were draped in Hermes scarfs, and scarfs fluttered from the tennis court as 500 joined for the Friends of French Art garden fashion show and luncheon.
Yves Duval, Hermes international director, flew in from Paris to join Elin Vanderlip, estate owner, and co-chairs Betty Field and Marion Scharffenberger.
Proceeds will be used to restore the 18th-Century ceiling of the Salon Dore in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington and to enable the Friends of French Art to send three American students to Paris to help restore art at the Ecole de Beaux Arts and frescoes in Gascony. Now, Vanderlip leaves with 30 on her annual House Party tour.
Frances Brody, Yvonne Segerstrom, Richard and Ginny Stever and Peggy Zuckerman are among those who will be entertained by Baron Elie and Liliane de Rothschild at his estate north of Paris and have lunch on the balcony (which the Friends helped restore) where Renoir painted “The Boating Party.”
