A First for Art Center One Hundred

There’s a new benefit on the horizon--the Imagination Ball June 11. Alyce Williamson, president of the Art Center One Hundred, is chairing. The party, catered by Rococo and with mimes, acrobats and Wayne Foster’s Orchestra for dancing, promises to be a happening. The outdoor sculpture garden will be tented. It’s the center’s first fund-raiser ever.

The ball calls for “creative black-tie or costume.” Already, imagination brims. Kathleen Allen has begun work on her elaborate butterfly regalia. Martha Chandler says she will come as a bag lady. Other creative women involved are Judith Brown, Eleanore Phillips Colt, Beverly Fitzgerald, Katherine Gates, Kelsey Hall, Marie Jones, Mary Jones, Helen Posthuma, Mary Smeby, Judy Webb and Biji Wilcox.

It’s $500 per couple for the sit-down dinner, but students are also being invited to come in costume for a buffet and trip the light fantastic to Foster’s music. Invitations will be out soon.

ELAN: Every board meeting should be so posh. As the Blue Ribbon of the Music Center president for nearly three years, Keith Kieschnick has been an organizer par excellence of wonderful affairs.

The board meeting the other noon at Pacific Asia Museum was exquisite. Planning on the theory that meetings should expand the horizons of the volunteer world, the day’s chairman, Georgie Erskine, waltzed the Blue Ribbon board through the museum’s current China Trade Exhibit (not to be missed), with its wonderful art on ships, porcelains, bronzes and fabrics. Earlier they discussed business and welcomed Joanne Kozberg as president-elect; she takes over July 1.

Keith announced that Blue Ribbon will celebrate its 20th birthday June 26. She also revealed that Blue Ribbon will begin its birthday celebration in June with a repeat of small individual luncheons (they were a big hit two years ago) on June 27, 28 and 29. Members will sign up for luncheon and be assigned a hostess. The birthday will culminate next fall with a large, all-member event.

With Rococo’s help, Georgie Erskine gathered the elite group at the museum around luncheon tables Milo Bixby had set with hyacinths. After the mimosas, the coterie dined on shrimp mousse, cold trout, salad, asparagus, raspberries and the most scrumptious chocolate oblivion with almond cream. Attending: George Brumder, chairman of the museum, and Marilyn Brumder, and Ribbon leaders Mary Weir, Ann O’Malley, Pauline Naftzger, Lois Erburu, Flora Thornton, Joan Hotchkis, Nancy Vreeland, Barbro Taper, Helen Bing, Erlenne Sprague, Ruth Jones, Chardee Trainer, Jean Smith, Dina Oldknow, Nancy Call, Betty Wilson, Virginia Milner, Marion Jorgensen, Ernestine Avery, Ginny Cushman and Betty Keon.

Immediately after, Keith was off to Caltech to plan the Blue Ribbon luncheon May 4 with Dr. Leroy Hood, chairman of Caltech’s biology department. He’ll speak on immunology and molecular science.

In between, Blue Ribbon will be 100% occupied with its Children’s Holiday Festival April 11, 13, 14, 20 and 21. Co-chairs Louise Escoe and Pam Clyne are planning for 6,000 children at the Music Center. The festival will be funded by the Drown Foundation, thanks to Blue Ribbon board member Terri Childs’ influence.

ONCE IN A LIFETIME: Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis Jr., Quincy Jones, Diane Shurr and Buddy Greco will appear in concert for “Jazz Among Friends” April 19 at the benefit for the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center at Eisenhower Medical Center.

The evening in the McCallum Theater at the Bob Hope Cultural Center in Palm Desert promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime occasion. Reservations for the show, champagne and supper will be $2,500; the show alone is $500, according to chairman James Greenbaum, co-chair Jean Hahn and Helene Galen and James W. Vickers.

FOR GALE: Linda Evans and Sandra Moss host an intimate cocktail party for their chum, Gale Hayman (co-founder of Giorgio), who is launching a new career with her beauty collection in a new leopard-themed Gale Hayman-Beverly Hills concept. Invited to Sandra’s Holmby Hills abode Wednesday is a crowd including Atty. Gen. John Van De Kamp, Deborah Raffin, Molly Ringwald, Susan Anton, Michelle Phillips and John and Maureen Dean.