TELL 'EM IDA SENT YA' DANCING DOWN THE RIVER READY FOR A NEW CENTURY.(Show)

Byline: Winifred Yu and Ron Emery

Step back in time to an era of speakeasies and gangsters, beckons Ida Faiella.

Faiella is executive artistic director of L'Ensemble, the chamber troupe hosting a '30s speakeasy fund- raiser at the Boulevard Cafe in Albany on Saturday, Dec. 1. Faiella hopes the $45-a-plate dinner will raise $4,000 for L'Ensemble.

The evening's entertainment will include a performance by Ray and the Rayettes, made up of WMVI- AM's big-band performer Ray Lamere, Helen Novak of the Chamber of Commerce and Beverly Wittner of WRGB-TV. Metroland publisher Peter Iselin will join Faiella for a jazz duo, and Benita Zahn of WNYT-TV will share …