Valley News from Van Nuys, California • Page 31

Guests Left Speechlesi At Navy League's Bal By FRANCES RUSSELL KAY, Society Editor COLOR GUARD from PL Mugu gets attention from Mrs. Robert R. Dupzyk, Dr. Herbert C. Templeman, Mrs.

Max Harnish and Rear Adm. Harnish, from left, at Navy League's Ball honoring Pacific Missile Range and its present and past commanders. Admiral Harnish was given special honor during dinner at Beverly Hilton where there Were no Speeches. Photo for The News by Robert Keller If any of the several hundred guests at the Navy League Ball expected to find out every-, thing they always wanted to know about missiles but were afraid to ask, the Bev 1 Hilton was the wrong place to be. bject wasn't brought up.

This time the ball, given by the Navy League of the United States, Eleventh District, to honor the 'Pacific Missile Range at Pt. Mugu and its present and past commanders, was strictly a ball. Dr. H. C.

Templeman of Ventura, ball chairman, a i speeches or any of that jazz" and he kept his word. Even the guest of honor, Rear Adm. W. Max a rnish (say vai'nish), was brief and to the point when he was introduced from the stage in the International Room. ''Thanks for honoring us," was about all he said.

uch-decorated Admiral Harnish, a former Naval aviator and more recently Deputy Comptroller of the Navy stationed at the Pentagon, did admit that he was happy to be in California. When one guest asked, "Are you not talking because of a top-secret missile, maybe?" he replied, "No comment" and danced off with his blonde wife June, attractive in a beige gown made with lace bodice and pleated wool skirt. But had any of the ball guests insisted on getting into missiles they could have discussed the subject with any number of authorities. First, there were the other honored guests -past Missile Range commanders Capt. William M.

Fleming USN. Vice Commander of the range; Rear Adm. John E. Clark USN the (ret), Rear Adm. Marsi White USN (ret) Capt.

Jerome Rapp (ret) who were there wifh their wives. Then, there were men, who engineer the missiles, like Hughes and Lockheed VIPs who hosted tables at the ball. At these tables a ng others, Claneijs (she) and Gene- (he) Babfo of Encino, Lorraine anld Joseph Garfalo of man Oaks and the another Vallgy couple. Then there were all tlje Navy Ball regulars like Dorothy and Robert Kliebert, a ball director. She says they've moved back Cout.

on Fifth Page, SAN FERNANDO VALLEV LI ivm GLAD BRANSON. Women's Editor SLASH-ANGLE skirt panels shape an easy silhouette in this swim suit by DeWeese Designs. It features adjustable back buttoning straps. Thalians Honor 'Mister Wonderful' "Gene Kelly is a man who showed the mothers of America that they could send their sons to dancing school and not have to worry about them becoming sissies," actor Laurence Harvey told a gathering of more than 1000 show business personalities, city dignitaries and friends of the Thalians the other evening in the Los Angeles Room of the Century Plaza Hotel. The event was the Thalians 17th Annual Gala Ball and this year they honored dancer-choreographer-director Gene Kelly as their "Mister Wonderful." Proceeds from the $100 a plate dinner and show, "Let's Dance," will go toward the Thalians' new commitment to raise a second million dollars for the Community Mental Health Center now under construction at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Completion of the center, which will offer a coordinated program of treatment for all the mentally ill from infancy to old age. is expected early in 1973. It was an evening of nostalgia as the friends and costars of Gene Kelly gathered around him to viexv selected film clips from that fabulous era of musical extravaganzas in which he made dancing history. As he danced across the screen in such films as "Cover Girl," "Anchors Aweigh," "On the Town" and "An American in Paris" (to name a few), someone was heard to comment "We'd forgotten how great motion pictures used to be." There was spontaneous applause following each sequence and a standing ovation for his never-to-be- forgotten dance duet with Fred Aslaire and another standing ovation for his classic routine in "Singing in the Rain." Later, it was Fred Astaire who presented the "Mister Wonderful" statuette to Gene Kelly, the genius of the dance. Cont.

on Third Page DANCER Fred Astaire, right, chats with Mr. and Mrs. John Mantley of Studio City at Thalians "Let's Dance" benefit honoring Gene Kelly. Pro- Photo for Tlie News liy Frank Edwards ceeds ore earmarked for Community Mental Health Center at Cedars-Sinai Hospital to be completed in next year. Get Into Swim for Spring 73 By FRAN ERWIN Women's Staff Writer When the fashion editors representing 80 news- a ers throughout the United States and Canada gathered 'round the runway of the Grand Trianon Room of 'the Beverly Wilshire Hotel to take notes on' the sportswear story for 1973, we couldn't help but feel great pride in the tern manufacturers who.

make tip the California Fashion Creators. They're the inventors of ortswear and sportswear is big news. And most of the news is made in the hubbub ot the busy market area just a htone's throw from the San Fernando Valley. The importance of the Golden State's designers was stressed by Alex Colman, a member of the CFC board of directors, when 'he said, "California is the capital of suburbia. That's why it's the Cont.

on Fourth Page NEWS PA PER Don, Dona Triunf Named, Debutantes Presented CONFETTI border is Komehameha's name for this Antron print fashioned into a ring-necked body suit and matching bicycle skirt. The presentation of 14 young ladies as 1972 Con- cjo Valley Debutantes and revealing of the identity of this year's Don and Dona Triunfo highlighted the i hth annual Triunfo Costume Ball at the Ma- libou Lake Mountain Club in Agoura. The ball, sponsored each year by the Conejo Valley Historical Society, again served as a fund-raiser for the completion of the Stagecoach Inn Museum, the state historical landmark destroyed by fire in 1970. Proceeds from balls previous to 1970 had gone toward restoring the original landmark. Surprise announcement of the evening was the introduction of William Orville Hunt and Mrs.

Jackson (Doris) Granholm as Don and Dona Triunfo for 1972. Each was chosen for the annual honor on the basis of dedicated service and contribution to the cultural enrichment of the community. Mr. Hunt, member of a Conejo Valley and Ventura County pioneer faml- By MARGIE SCOTT, The News Staff Writer ly, has been active in the nity organizations. He is chairman of the accessions her many community tc- Conejo Valley Historical currently on the museum committee.

tivities, serves as a Society and other commu- governing board and is Mrs. Granholm, among Conl. on Sixth Page The photo by JM RhymM FORMAL presentation of 1972 Conejo Valley among total of 14 bowing this year, took place Debutantes Sharon Benson, Robin Byors, Nancy eighth annual Triunfo Bali Barrett and Nancy Kodowcld, from loft, who were at Malibou Lake Mountain Club in Agoura, NE WSPAPER.