Glittering Crowd Honors Its Own
"Black tie optional," said the invitation, but most of the men at Guild Hall's annual Academy of the Arts awards dinner last week chose to go the boiled-shirt-and-patent-leather route anyway. As for the women, gray may be this winter's color but you'd never have known it at the Plaza that night; again, black - long, short, or in between - was overwhelmingly the color of choice.

ON TOUR: The Past At The Holidays
Historic inns and houses all decked out for the holidays, including an old schoolhouse now called Green Frog Cottage and a residence called the Morning Glory House, will be the stops on the 10th annual holiday house tour sponsored by the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce on Saturday.

Concert Spans Centuries
The Choral Society of the Hamptons will present its much anticipated Christmas concert on Sunday. There will be two performances at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, at 5 and 7:30 p.m.

ALVIN NOVAK: Music Maker And Music Lover
In last week's bizarre December summer, the windows of Alvin Novak's house on the moraine behind Water Mill were open to the late afternoon sun, and the sounds of Brahms could be heard from way down the driveway.

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