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PAGE 30 'AS BURY PARK PRESS FRIDAY 27 JUNE 1997 stepping out marguerite henderson 2 LJ imping gTOnjHD Era M. Tognoli, General and Artistic Director Summer Opera Festival '97 at the air-conditioned Wfica n. Garden Club blooms with a bountiful membership Paramount Theatre Ocean 5th Asbury Park i pwi.ii in 7355351 jTOiR, i Marriage of Figaro Nov. 16th Count Basie Theatre featuring Metropolitan and NYC Center Opera Stars Grandly Staged and Costumed with Full Orchestra M1 Call (732) 531 -2378 for ticket info and group rates Ordst fo by nrf WJJ PO Bo 35 Wtertwk 0771 1 To OwgeWieS Ca (908) i i lis St Ill "fx I i i i There An Actor In You Waiting To Come Out? ACTING It's Never Too Late! Actors are needed in all ages, sizes, shapes i i It I lit 5a 1 You could call the Allen-hurst Garden Club the new kid on the plot as far as garden clubs go. It was started some 18 months ago by a clutch of women who thought a garden club would be a great addition to the town.

Among them was Sandee Steckbeck, formerly president of the Bernardsville Garden Club, and president now of the Allen-hurst club. The other officers are Peggy DeMasi, first vice president; Pari Harrison, second vice president; Kathy Tomaino, treasurer; Sandra Sowis, recording secretary, and Cleo Boiko, corresponding secretary. They're all of Allenhurst with the exception of DeMasi, Ocean Township. Allenhurst Garden Club is now a member of the Garden Club of New Jersey and the membership has grown to 34. They meet once a month in a member's home and, in conjunction with the Allenhurst centennial now under way, have plans afoot (you'll pardon the expression) for a Porch and Garden Walk to take place from 1 to 5 p.m.

July 11, for which tickets are $8. The tour will feature nine homes, each decorated on a summer holiday theme, and St. Andrew's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, corner of Elberon and Norwood Avenues, which opened last Sunday for summer services. There will be a boutique at one of the tour homes that of Ivis Rachmelowitz and tea and dessert will be served all afternoon on Madeline Cumis-key's Victorian porch. Boiko, (732) 531-2505, and Lynn Gilman, (732) 531-1451, are chairing the tour and may be contacted for information or reservations.

Tickets will also be sold on tour day at the town's gazebo across from the Allenhurst train station. That's where, maps showing tour and colors. All that is required is to show the industry that you have paid your dues and have taken the time to train in the art. We offer professional acting workshops for beginners and advanced students. STANISIAVSW, ME1SNER ands METHOD acting.

Ages 6-86. ACTORS Allenhurst Garden Club members (from left) Sandee Steckbeck, Lynn Gilman and Cleo Boiko, all Allenhurst, pose at the borough's gazebo, where tickets and maps will be available the day of the club's first Porch and Garden Walk. TRAINING INSTITUTE 219-0055 91 Monmouth St. Red Bank home locations will be available. Last spring, the club selected planters for Main Street and they have been updated seasonally.

Members also did plantings around borough hall and the town bulletin board and installed a perennial garden next to the Allenhurst Beach Club. Funds for the projects came from the Borough of Allenhurst and the Property Owners Group as well as from fall sales of flower bulbs. Show house revisited Laura Oncea, Fair Haven, director of the Junior League of Monmouth County's May 4-25 show house, "A I i TEKMIKOVSKY Op1 atthe PNC BANK Celebration of Broadway," says the event grossed some $167,000, the most ever brought in by a Junior League of Monmouth County fundraiser. The success of the event enables the league to give almost $70,000 net proceeds in support of such projects as Hand-In-Hand, which is being conducted in Long Branch to guide and educate teen mothers and their children. Awards for participating designers went to Lois Caruso, A.S.I.D.

(American Society of Interior Designers), of Lois Caruso Interiors, Little Silver, whose "Enchanted April" room was selected as Best Overall Large Space, and to Helene Goodman, I.1.D.A (International Interior Design Association), of Helene Goodman Design, Rumson, whose "Post Times and Pastimes" was selected as Best Overall Small Space. The People's Choice Awards went to Laurie Deliman-Burke, A.S.I.D., Monmouth Beach, for her room "The Butler Did It" and to Unlimited Designs, Asbury Park, for the room "Brighton Beach Memoirs." The Junior League gave the Best Stanford White Interpretation Award (named in honor of the architect who designed the early 1900s home) to Joan Lydia Braverman of Joan Lydia Interiors, West Long Branch, for the master bedroom "Overture to a Dream" and its Best of Broadway-Tony Award (in recognition of the fact that the estate's first owner was a prolific director of Broadway musicals) to Laurie Brook of Lone Star Studios, Red Bank, for her room "Dressing the Part" Marguerite Henderson is a Press staff writer who has been covering the social scene for 25 years. Her column appears Sundays and Tuesdays through Fridays' etr ARTS CENTER 1812 Overture Piano Concerto No. 1 Symphony No. 4 4 Wednesday July 9, 8 p.m.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Zdenek Macal, conductor Alexander Toradze, pianist On Sale NOW! Tickets: $47.50 (Cold Circle), $33.50, $23.50, $18.50 (lawn) Can (201) 507-8300 Available at TklietMatter Phone Charge and outlet, and PNC Bank Arts Center Box Office Interior designers Lois Caruso (left) and Helene Goodman participated in the Junior League of Monmouth County's show house in West Long Branch. 1 1.