... . 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, ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. With the same regularity as the first cuckoo is heard to herald spring comes the statement that there is nothing to do in London on Sunday night, nothing to but visit a kinema, or go to some private theatrical performance if you happen to be one of the lucky ones. As a fact, this it quite a fallacy, probably in spired by the apparent, deadntfss of the West ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE ROAD HOUSE. When the Road House, the latest of London's West End clubs opens its doors, Harry Adams will be found in charge of the entertainments. Harry Gordon will lead the orchestra, and the opening cabaret will be headed by Lilian Lowe and Allan Shires. The limes in Leicester Square have been contorted from on old-timi- kinema which was fondly known a* Cupid's ...

... . 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. ROADHOUSE AUDITIONS. After a few more Sundays of these auditions Harry Adams will probably have something like a corner in cabaret talent, and be able to sub-let to his less enterprising brethren. Last Sunday's programme brought out a number of artists, both known and unknown, most of them fit to ccupy a position in a first-class programme. The opening- was in the ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE DANCE. Dancing is in full swing in hundreds of places, both great and small, from the aristocratic floor of the Grosvenor House to the dingy but no less jolly palais de danse of the far East End. Gala nights are weekly occurrences, and few are considered complete without cabaret, while bands are in groat demand. Oovent Garden, which rumour says will end its ...

... STATE GRANT. A State subsidy for grand opera was announced by Mr. Snowden in the House of Commons on Thursday. It takes the form of a yearly grant of £17,500 for the next five years, with a payment of £5.000 with respect to the present financial ouarter of the a total of £92,500. Thi* grant combined with announcements re cently made of agreement rcached between Sir Thomas Beeeham. the ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. GROSVENOR HOUSE. Although progress has robbed Park Lane itself of much of its old exclusive glory, Grosvenor House remains the hub of society functions and galas. One of the most important forthcoming events is the birthday party of the Theatrical Ladies' Guild, which will be held on December 5 under the auspices of the Actresses' Franchise League. A special cabaret ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. STAGELAND OPENS. The menus in the blue-curtained windows of Stageland are providing quite an entertainment for the natives of Little Newport Street and district, and at night the club's lights form a bright spot in the little square behind the Shaftesbury Theatre, quite one of the gloomiest in the West End. The club was duly opened last Friday by Walter Payne, who, ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE PICCADILLY. The twice-nightly and everchanging editions of Playtime at the Piccadilly are among the best of tho dinner-supper entertainments in the West End. In the old days sumptuous production was usual, and on one occasion a novel note was struck by putting on the cabaret in the form of a circus. Now the management and the pub lic are satisfied with one or ...

... . 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. SUMMER-TIME. There is always a falling-off of things as the warmer weather comes, at any rate so far as the West End is concorned. The calls of the fresh air and the river are insistent, and motor-coaches carry the world and his wife anywhere speedily, even if they do not sess cars of their own. Soon i. ccufcjhes will probably be pulling up and depositing passengers ...