Coming Up

* The League for Children’s annual spring gala will honor Lois and Art Linkletter Thursday at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Tickets are $250. Call (213) 639-1560, Ext. 207.

* USC’s Black Alumni Assn. Awards and Scholarship benefit dinner will be Thursday at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel. Call (213) 740-8342. (An incorrect number was listed in last week’s Social Circuits.)

* Members of the International Committee of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Assn. stage their annual benefit ball “Alma Brasileira,” honoring the Los Angeles Consular Corps Friday at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Tickets from $225 to $400. Call (213) 972-7643.

* John Wayne Cancer Institute Auxiliary honors Kirk Douglas at its Odyssey Ball 2001 on Saturday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Tickets are $350. Call (310) 315-6111.

* Ability First, established in 1926 as the Crippled Children’s Society of Southern California, celebrates its 75th anniversary Sunday with “Stars Among Us,” a premiere of the PBS documentary “The Visionaries” at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, North Hollywood. Tickets are $25; children, $10. Call (818) 242-9108.

* The spring luncheon and musicale sponsored by the Founding Associates of the John D. French Alzheimer’s Foundation Monday at the Beverly Hills Hotel will feature soprano Catherine Ireland. Tickets are $100. Call (310) 472-0241.

* The Orange County Museum of Art honors artist Robert Rauschenberg May 6 at the Art of Dining gala at the Palm Garden at the Four Seasons Hotel in Newport Beach. Tickets are $1,000. (949) 759-1122, Ext. 232.

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Information for Social Circuits can be directed to Patt Diroll in Los Angeles or Ann Conway in Orange County. Diroll is at pattdiroll@earthlink.net; Conway at (714) 966-5952 or, by fax, (714) 966-7790.