LIVING POST: You’ve seen Pageant of the...

LIVING POST: You’ve seen Pageant of the Masters? In Mission Viejo Wednesday, you can see a pageant of one master. Seniors and children will dress up in period costumes and portray still-life scenes from Norman Rockwell paintings--the kind you used to see in the Saturday Evening Post. Four showings will run every hour at the Murray Community and Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way. . . . Says center director Nancy Herrmann: “Rockwell had a good sense of the family and used a lot of intergenerational situations in his paintings.” . . . The shows are free.

GOLDEN AGAIN? Look for 1996 to be a “turnaround” year for Orange County real estate, predicts Patricia Moore, executive vice president of the Orange Coast Assn. of Realtors. . . . She points out that in 1994 it took an average of 129 days to sell a home in the Gold Coast area (Newport Beach and surrounding communities), but that number dropped to 120 last year. Says Moore: “This information is important to reversing the pessimism expressed by the naysayers.” . . . Her association meets Wednesday to hear its leaders’ views on the new year.

FUNNY BONE: Andy Beyer--make that “Bumbo”--at 77 is said to be the county’s oldest working clown. (E1) He performs magic for children’s birthday parties and baby showers, and combs neighborhoods with his own small truck-powered merry-go-round, which youngsters flock to. His biggest fans are in his own family. Says daughter-in-law Deb Beyer: “Some fathers-in-law fix your car. Mine makes water come out of my elbow.”

FLUTE FINALE: Roland Moritz is retiring today from the Los Angeles Philharmonic after 41 years. And his father had played bassoon with the orchestra before him--they spanned 74 years in all. . . . But Moritz is also fondly remembered as a teacher in the 1960s for Cal State Fullerton music students. Says its former music chairman, Joseph Landon, “We were fortunate to have an artist of his talent.”

TODAY: The Fenians play Irish songs at 2, Waltmar Theatre at Chapman University, 301 E. Palm St., Orange. (714) 744-7016.