THE BAY BOWL: If you haven’t spent...

THE BAY BOWL: If you haven’t spent any time enjoying the natural wonders of Upper Newport Bay, local officials want to make it easier for you. Thursday, they’ll dedicate a new amphitheater at its Ecological Reserve and Regional Park. . . . It required a little landscaping, but the amphitheater was built in a natural bowl. It will be used for educational programs about Upper Newport Bay. Says spokeswoman Nancy Bruland: “It’s a place to show people the natural wonders this bay has to offer.”

MASTER PLAN: Tiger Woods, the current U.S. Amateur golf champion, plays in his first Masters tournament this week in Augusta, Ga., golf’s premier event. A graduate of Western High in Anaheim and a Stanford freshman, Woods has asked his father, Earl, to be his caddie. But others suggest that he should hire someone who knows the greens at Augusta. . . . Says Earl Woods: “We will meet and decide what is best for Tiger’s chances of winning.” No amateur has ever won the Masters.

SHE WAS THERE: Margot Guiness of Laguna Niguel is writing a book about Hitler’s concentration camps. She knows the subject well. . . . She lost her entire family to those camps, and Guiness herself, at 14, was imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen. There, she says, she met the young Anne Frank, whose diary made her name synonymous with the Holocaust’s horrors. . . . Says Guiness: “Anne wasn’t sure that she wanted to live in such an evil world. Our way of escaping the harshness of our lives was by telling each other the stories we had read and enjoyed.”

REMEMBERING ANNE: Guiness survived, but Anne Frank died in that camp, 50 years ago this month. The Newport Harbor Art Museum will show an education exhibition, “Anne Frank in the World,” April 20 to June 28 at its library annex. It includes 500 photographs re-creating Anne Frank’s life, many of them from the girl’s own family album, discovered in 1978. Says project coordinator Bruce Giuliano of Irvine: “The exhibit is a plea for tolerance and understanding.”