... REFERENCE BOOKS FOR 1930 Post Office London Directory The 131st (1930) edition of the Post Office London Directory (Kelly, cloth, 55s.; leather gilt, 70s.) is now on sale. The task of revising and cor ...

... LUSCIOUSNESS.-- Although it came just too late to ring in the new year with its opening peal, Bow Bells at the London Hippo drome was the first big show ol' 1932. lhat it may attract, by virt ...

... WELLS OF WORDINESS. --After a fairly extensive reading of modern fiction, I have come to the conclusion that most novelists use too many words. Not that I object to the long novel as suc ...

... , by Alfred Tennyson (Macmillan, 10s. 6d.). Although there is a good deal to be said for not unearthing work which its writers have rejected, we can only be grateful to Mr. Char ...

... Ambrose Holt and Family, by Susan Glaspell. (Gollancz, 7s. 6d.) Winter Comedy, by Sylvia Thompson. (Heinemann, 7s. 6d.) The Concave Mirror, by W. B. Maxwell. (Heinemann, 7s. 6d.) Th ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. GROSVENOR HOUSE. Park Lane naturally demands something rather out of the usual in dinner and supper-time entertainment, and with the aid of Francis A. Mangan, of London, New York, Paris, Dublin. Manchester. at all of which places he is busily staging unique dancing and mizniiis: shows, tho Grosvenor Hons is able to find it. For the past few weeks the floor has been ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE THE TRAFALGAR. Once upon a time the Trafalgai Restaurant was the grill-room, or porhaps tho billiard-room, of the Grand Hotel. To-day, under the management of B. Vercelli and his two brothers, it is one of the most popular first-class restaurants in the West End. Within a few B weeks, however, it will change its D name to Ohantilly, thereby relin- t quishing the right ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. CHANTILLY, Once known as the Trafalgar this restaurant, which is now under the direction of E. G. Vercelli and his brothers, has father an enviable position, inasmuch as it might be said to be in the sacred precincts of Whitehall, a place full of brass hats and all sorts of nig guns. It can tap another useful section of society via the MalL A great attraction is ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE HOLIDAY The sudden heat wave and glorious weather on Monday threw a monkey-wrench into the holiday machinery of hotel, restaurant, and club cabaret. London--that is to say, the London that mostly has the cash to indulge in dinner and supper amusement--had dashed away at the first sign of the sun, and dinner tables that should have been crowded were desolate, ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE RIVERSIDE. Thames Riviera, the popular riverside resort, reopened success fully two weeks ago. Grounds, gardens, redecorations, cuisine wines, all came up to expectations and the entertainment provided was capital, but without being out of the ordinary. The hotel Paris, Bray, started its seasot last week. This establishment with the management of which Colonel ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. LYONS. Trocabaret has a long list of first-class artists for this month and next. The Cochran cabaret revue The Prosperity Party runs on in the grill-room as merrily as ever, the Melvilles, the clever comic jugglers, now taking the place of Dekker and Pan. In port of the talkative Maurice, we have many old favourites, includ ing Mr. Flotsam and Mr. Jetsam, Nairn on ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. QUEEN'S. The return of Will Honder and his band has made a notable change, both in the music and the business. Hender himself and hit instruments do a great deal of work and take up a lot of room. There is a big fellow, fondly called a marimba-xylophone, which is capable of all sorts of noises from tiopical storms to the cooing of love-sick pigeons. Until I met this, ...