Claude Rains – Donation
If you cannot attend this year’s Gala, but would still like to donate, please select an amount from the dropdown below. We appreciate your support – Virginia Robinson Garden’s couldn’t function without generous donors like yourself.
Dooley Wilson – Member
$3,000.00
With your generous donation as a Dooley Wilson Member, you’ll receive the following luxuries at the 2019 Patron Gala:
- Listed on all printed materials
- Seating for 4 guests
- Full page in the Tribute Book (equal to $2,000 Tribute Page)
Dr. Toni Bowers
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Dr. Bowers is a Professor in the Department of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving her doctorate at Stanford University. Her undergraduate studies were at the University of Southern California and Houghton College. She specializes in British literature and culture from Charles II’s restoration in 1660 to the French Revolution and is a Core Faculty Member for Penn’s Gender Studies program. She publishes and teaches on 17th and 18th century British writing by and about women, ideologically driven and partisan political writing of that time and place. Dr. Bowers has extensively dozens of essays in scholarly journals, and published Force or Fraud: British Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance, 1660-1760 (OUP, 2011) and The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1660-1760 (CUP 1996.)
Dr. Bowers will enlighten and delight us with a biographical talk that situates Charlie Chaplin on Summit Drive in early 20th century Los Angeles. She will give a brief review of his life story before and after his Beverly Hills years, but will concentrate on the years in Beverly Hills, the period of some of his greatest achievements.
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Members $85 / Non-Members $95
10:30 am Mimosas
11:00 am Lecture
12:00 pm Lunch
Virginia Robinson Gardens
1008 Elden Way
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
310-550-2068
Paul Henreid – Sponsor
$5,000.00
With your generous donation as a Paul Henreid, you’ll receive the following luxuries at the 2019 Patron Gala:
- Listed on all printed materials
- Table for 10 guests in a preferred section
- Full page in the Tribute Book (equal to $3,000 Tribute Page)
Peter Lorre – Member
$1,500.00
With your generous donation as a Peter Lorre Member, you’ll receive the following luxuries at the 2019 Patron Gala:
- Listed on all printed materials
- Seating for 2 guests
- Full page in the Tribute Book (equal to $1,000 Tribute Page)
Sydney Greenstreet – Individual Seating
$500.00
With your generous donation as a Sydney Greenstreet donor, you’ll receive a luxurious individual seat at the 2019 Patron Gala.
Tim Lindsay – Rediscover the Robust Fragrance and Allure of Roses from a By-Gone Era
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Rediscover the Robust Fragrance and Allure of Roses from a By-Gone Era
Roses play a significant role in World History, rose cultivation began over 5,000 years ago, most likely in China. For over 1,000 years, roses arrived in western Europe via The Silk Road. In Rome, they were used as confetti at celebration, for medicinal purposes, and as a source of perfume. In the fifteenth century, the conflict in England, between York and Lancaster, was coined “The War of the Roses.” By the seventeenth century English Royalty considered rose water as legal tender.
Wear your garden attire and see you soon!
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1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Members $25 / Non Members $35
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Virginia Robinson Gardens
1008 Elden Way
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
310-550-2068
Tribute Categories
Below are the options for purchasing an ad in this years Tribute Book:
- The Usual Suspects ($5,000) – Full Page
- Here’s Looking At You Kid ($3,000) – Full Page
- We’ll Always Have Paris ($2,000) – Full Page
- As Time Goes By ($1,000) – Full Page
- For Old Times Sake ($500) – Half Page
- A Kiss Is Just A Kiss ($250) – Quarter Page