Gloria Mathews

"O h, hey, Mrs. Tambourine Lady, play a song for me . . . " If only Bob Dylan had changed the gender of his "Mr. Tambourine Man," he could make a claim at true prescience. There is a tambourine lady, and Orange County's got her. On a typical night in any of a number of Balboa Peninsula nightclubs, a group might break into Van Morrison's "Gloria" as a band member shouts, "Gloria's in the house!" Most club regulars know whom the commotion is about.

"O h, hey, Mrs. Tambourine Lady, play a song for me . . . " If only Bob Dylan had changed the gender of his "Mr. Tambourine Man," he could make a claim at true prescience. There is a tambourine lady, and Orange County's got her. On a typical night in any of a number of Balboa Peninsula nightclubs, a group might break into Van Morrison's "Gloria" as a band member shouts, "Gloria's in the house!" Most club regulars know whom the commotion is about.