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By Valarie Jennings
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YOUNG
CULTURE VULTURES helped a Gotham treasure, the Roundabout Theatre,
with a dinner and cabaret of Broadway stars. The beauties chairing it were
Toronto firecracker Jenny Bawden (designer, decorator, charity catalyst)
and Rose Marie Logan, Shearson Lehmans's savvy senior v-p. We were treated
to Zorba and Fiddler On The Roof hits by Theodore Bikel, who'll sing forth
at Ontario Place June 11. Also entertaining--Dashing Donner, a Princeton
grad and attorney is the heir to Peter Duchin and Lester Lanin. There he
is at his cousin Vice President George Bush's bash; on to play for the
Swedish Royals; and most yupper-crusty galas Jenny Bawden often organizes.
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GOOD WILL AMBASSADOR:
She'll soon fill Cornelia Guest's sizeable shoes as co-chair (with jet-setter
Ludovic Autet) of the glamorous April In Paris ball. And how young "Jen"
has enlivened the staid old Canadian Club . . . bringing in spirited young
members (and distracting miniskirts!) At their Victoria Day party,
her committee included Darlene Streit (recovering from Warhol Mania at
Sothebys), G&M's smart cookie Connie Hill, good ol' boy Jake Dunlap's
attorney son John and token Yank, Randall Stempler (merger mogul for Marine
Midland). Among potential recruits -- Lisa and Wendy Belzberg, Maria Bronfman,
Goldman Sachs' Rob White, young oil tycoon Mark Harrington and Ed Rotter,
a realtor with mega yen. Jenny hasn't lured in Prince Albert yet, though
last week, he danced away at very-in "Au Bar" with her and her pals. |
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