Stars Will Shine for Salvation Army

It’s a gigantic effort to assist more than 5 million needy Americans at Christmas. That’s why a sizable bunch of Hollywood’s best-known stars will be at Farmers Market, 3rd and Fairfax, Friday noon. They’ll be assisting the Salvation Army’s nationwide campaign.

With the Salvation Army Band at the helm, Jayne Meadows, Ed Begley Jr., Martha Raye, Barbara Eden, Jamie Farr, David Selby, Ann Jillian and Janet Leigh have vowed to sing Christmas carols at the kickoff. Steve Allen will interview the stars on stage.

The event marks the first day thousands of the familiar Salvation Army Christmas kettles symbolically boil on the street, extending warmth and good cheer.

Christmas is in the air in the historic Temecula Valley. From former Angeleno Dorothy Meyler, we hear that June Buhler of the Rancho-Temecula Area Woman’s Club is up to her ears in pine cones for the “Christmas Is Sharing” holiday home tour Dec. 5. Some of the most interesting homes in the area will be open to those who follow the holiday home tour signs.

One is the Russell Rowe home in the Los Ranchitos area where horse farms look toward the towering Palomar Mountains. There, the ladies will be selling 500 hand-crafted items. Close by on a private knoll, artist Flav Cook and her husband, Howard, will show off their Mediterranean-style home with her oil canvases and family heirlooms from the Orient. On Mesa Grande, the Beldon Fields’ home, a replica of an Anne Hathaway English cottage, will feature her Christmas tree of Santas amid the serving of scones and tea in the English teahouse. In the Santa Rosa area, Millie Crom’s home and her elephant collection will be the drawing card.

Proceeds go to scholarships and the high school’s goal of stadium seats.

Delta Delta Deltas ring in the season Dec. 3 with their 39th annual Sleighbell Luncheon in the Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom.

The Bonwit Teller fashion show is sure to glitter. The Citrus College Chorale will perform. National President Mrs. Kenneth C. Gaines Jr. of Los Alamitos is expected as luncheon president Mrs. Thomas A. Maloof of San Marino hosts Mrs. Gabriel Duque, president of the board of Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles.

Benefiting will be the hospital’s hematology-oncology research, and, thus, Dr. Denman Hammond, chairman of the USC Children’s Cancer Study Group, and Dr. Stuart E. Siegel, head of hematology-oncology at Children’s, will be on hand with their wives.

In on the planning are Tri Delts Meredith MacRae, and Mmes. Dennis Draudt, Edward M. Peterson, Thomas Johnson, Michael Mutal and Earl W. McDonald.

Former fashion designer Diane Manchee has had one super time outfitting her Chez Monche shop on Boston Court in Pasadena. It may be the most Christmasy place in town with its unique ornaments, antiques, designer wreaths, nativities and novelties. It’s the place where impulse overcomes, but it’s so nice.

And the mood at the Green House, 830 E. California St., Pasadena, is tempting, too. The shop, which exists to support Childrens Hospital, is filled with Yuletide yummies, imported creches and antiques, crystal, brass and baskets.

If you didn’t finish your holiday shopping before Halloween, now’s the time. The gift shop of the Assistance League of Southern California celebrates a Week of Christmas Shopping on Dec. 2-6, at its shop at 1370 N. St. Andrews Place.

Marge Kolliner, volunteer gift shop manager, says the wassail bowl will be filled and there will be cakes of all kinds and gift wrapping extraordinaire.

All the league philanthropies will profit in true spirit.

More holiday cheer:

Mayfield Senior School hosts its Country Christmas luncheon and boutique Dec. 5. The Mayfield Mother’s Auxiliary tells us so.

Twenty-one young women preparing for the St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral Ladies Society Debutante Ball, the 38th annual Sweetheart Ball on Feb. 15 at the Beverly Hilton, will model holiday fashions at the luncheon today in the Crystal Room of the Biltmore.

Debutantes are Caroline Eid, Stacy Tintocalis and Michelle Younis, Los Angeles; Jeanine Abraham of Scottsdale, Ariz.; Christina Andrews of Hancock Park; Mary Ayoub of Glendale; Laura and Donna Barakat and Stephanie Beyrooty of La Canada; Stephanie Duran of North Hollywood; Karen Morse of Whittier, and Jennifer Bousard, Phoenix, Ariz.

Also Sheri Odefey, Sepulveda; Nicole Pogue, Palm Springs; Lisa Saba, Chandler, Ariz.; Jocelyn Skaff, Encino; Jennifer Slatko, Burbank; Denise Srour, Encino; Denise Zacky and Joy Zaki, West Los Angeles, and Leda Nemer, Sun Valley.

Mrs. Paul Romley is ball chairman and Mrs. Theodore Nicholas, fashion show chairman.

The Carriage Club and its president, John W. Norcross, have a full season of fun: Saturday, they had brunch at The Beach Club before leaving for the USC/UCLA football game. In January, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Adams and Mr. and Mrs. George B. Seitz Jr. are co-chairmen of the Smoke Tree Ranch weekend in Palm Springs. In December, Mrs. Robert Sides is travel chairman for the “Hong Kong Fling” at the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong.

Thank you! Thank you!

Angels Attic is thanking a generous gentleman, Dwight Stuart, for providing the funds to purchase a 15-place Dodge van for the Brentwood Center, and also thanking Warren Biggs (Chevrolet dealer) for making the van available at cost and agreeing to keep it in top condition.

Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times is thanking the 500 guests at the Halloween Fundraising Ball at the home of Donna and Harvey Rosen for $125,000, enough to underwrite the 1986 camp program for children with cancer.

Triple headliners for the City of Hope:

Monday evening the Horace Heidt Jr. Orchestra will play for the Harvest Ball headed by Rand Goodrich, executive director of the Food Industries Circle for the City of Hop.

This week a star-studded dais for the annual stag roast honoring Monty Hall was sponsored by the Medical Center Aides for the City of Hope at the Beverly Hilton. Milton Berle, a former roastee, was roastmaster, with Rich Little, Sid Caesar and Red Buttons entertaining, too, and roast chairman Jay Lenson in charge.

Orange County furniture executive Larry Brooks was selected as Humanitarian of the Year by the Home Furnishings Industry Chapter for the City of Hope and feted at the Century Plaza, marking the industry’s 20th annual benefit. David J. Thomas and Donna Davis were co-chairmen and Jack Brehm of Boca Raton, East Coast chairman.

Past perfect:

More than 2,000 youngsters at 30 different locations participated in the summer program sponsored by the Southern California chapter of the National Junior Tennis League, and some of the sponsoring groups (Transamerica Corp. and Unocal) joined this week at the Los Angeles Tennis Center, UCLA, Thrifty Corp. clubhouse to celebrate.

Carolyn Gold headed the black-tie dinner this week at Le Bel Age Hotel for Women’s American ORT-Pacific Southwest District XI. ORT stands for Organization for Rehabilitation through Training and supports Jewish vocational schools on five continents. Vocalist Hedva performed. The DOLLS, Inc. (Dedicating Our Loyal, Loving Service), which supports a double program for the elderly and for high school scholarships, vows to give 100% of its proceeds directly to its programs. That’s what Mmes. Frank Whitehead, Harry Schulman, Robert Shayne, Mort Helper, Stan Spero, Peter Parkin, Bette Jeane Peterson, Thomas Lavine and DOLLS president Mrs. William Rutter were doing when they hosted their “Touch of Paris” luncheon this week.