Palm Beach life: Busy summer! A building at AFI, play premiere in Scotland, wedding bells

It was a big summer for Palm Beach winter rez Larry Herbert, who crossed the continent to celebrate a new space bearing his name at the American Film Institute Conservatory.

The newly built Lawrence Herbert Alumni Center, is the product of Herbert's major leadership gift to the film school, where he served on the board 30 years.

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The center is a dedicated space for alumni to gather for networking, career enrichment events and meetings.

Guests at the ceremony included Alumni Council chair Marshall Herskovitz ('75) and council co-founders Deniese Davis ('12), Unjoo Moon ('98) and Alessandro Uzielli ( '89).

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Speaking of showbiz

The Bill Bone Every Place You Can Imagine Summer Tour stopped in Edinburgh, when its famous Fringe Festival was in full swing.

No, it's not a Dolly Parton drag show. It's all about arts and culture.

Bone reports that Palm Beach resident Robert Lloyd George has written a play called "Winston & David" about the intense, nearly lifelong, and unusual friendship between Winston Churchill the aristocratic politician and Lloyd George, the son of a cobbler from Wales.

The play, Bone said, "was the chief reason for my visit to Scotland. I had the privilege of being the guest of the author, and met the cast and creative team at an impromptu reception in the courtyard of the theatre.

"It was a terrific show at one of the great venues of the festival — the historic teaching auditorium of the University Of Edinburgh Medical School."

We figured it was impromptu when we looked at the pic. That ain't Baccarat they're drinking from.

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Heard

That wedding bells were ringing for Ginger Feuer and Larry Leeds last weekend. Nonagenarian Larry, widower of Dahlia, and septugenarian Ginger, widow of Mike, reconnected at a dinner last year. The two couples had previously been friends. For, like, forty years. Not what you'd call a whirlwind courtship ... that stylish couple  Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler were named to the International Best-Dressed list.

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Seen

Craig and Michele Millard, Chris and Grace Meigher, and Ralph and Ala von Auersperg Isham were among the guests at a dinner hosted by Kate and Jimmy Gubelmann in honor of the 32 members of the Courageous syndicate.

The dinner took place in Newport at the new Sailing Museum and Hall of Fame, which shares space in the former Armory with the America's Cup Museum.

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Palm Beach life: Of buildings, plays and weddings