... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. EMPRESS ROOMS. During the summer months cabaret is temporarily suspended at the Kensington resort, although recent bookings have included many stars and well-known acts including Graham and Barbara, dancers; Hengler Brothers, the Two Strong Silent Men; Vera Kayne and Ueorge Laurie in Stops and Styles Eddy Gray, a juggler with clubs and other things, who is a ...

... . 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. ON WITH THE DANCE. That austere body, the Board of Ballroom Dancing, has been sitting in solemn conclave to decide what dancers may and may not do during the coming season. To aid them in their meditations were close on fifty of the leading Pally managers. As the sult, we hear, there are to bo no new dances; no syncopated twelve-steps, no Broadway wobbles, or ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. TIOCADERO.--Champagne Time. Rarely has C. B. Cochran done better production-work than that seen in the new cabaret-revue in the Grill Room of the Trocadero; and Max Rivers, who is responsible for the dances and ensembles, is to be congratulated upon the amount of originality he has? aged to get into that part of the entertainment. The dressing is sometimes daring and ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE HAPPY HARBOUR. The Happy Harbour is one of the latest of West End clubs devoted to good fellowship, dancing, cabaret, and food and drink. The latter department is in the hands of Amori, late of the Ritz, the Savoy, and the Piccadilly, and one of the most experienced men at his job in London Those who put into the Happy Harbour are men and women connected with ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE MINOR . In some quarters there is a temporary falling off in the popularity of cabaret and night club, although this is more apparent among the establishments ot mushroom growth than the recognised after-the-theatre haunts. The truth is that the majority of the mushrooms are of an adventurer class. The managers know full well that life is likely to be short, and. ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. HOTELS DE PARIS. Major Robin L. M. Humphreys declares his belief in cabaret not only to-day, but in the future. In proof of which faith he quotes Agures. The Kit-Cat never has fewer than 500 people on its floors, and the Kit-Cat, being a restaurant, there is no table money charged, altnougn, as in most other restaurants there is a minimum fiet price for either dinner ...

... . 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 ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. DERBY NIGHT. Derby Day ia one of those occa- nona in the year during which the excitement lasts throughout the day and well into the morning after. Following the great events at Epsom it ia necessary to go somewhere to bring the day to a close, and what more fitting than a visit to restaurant or. club where cabaret and dancing are? 8ome of the gaiety is a little ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. The news that a cabaret in the year 1949, complete with music, costumes, etc., of the period, is to be a feature in a film which is being produced in Loudon, reminds us that cabaret scenes and night clubs are apparently as necessary to filmland as are camera-men and tins in whioh to place the company when securely canncd. Unfortunately, this canning habit lids spread ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. INDEPENDENCE DAY. When I said the opport for additional festivities and galas were over for the time being I was forgetting the Star Spangled Banner and Independence Day. It is u peculiarly American institution. To-day all America will be revelling. There will be sioning and speech-making, boot leggers will work overtime in their bottling departments, and the machine ...

... . BY IVAN PATRICK GORE. With the coming of Christmas great activity exists in hotels, restaurants, and among the better-class cabaret clubs. All of them are out to give their members and patrons something more novel and attractive than in previous years. There are to be Christmas-trees in abundance, ohudreu s cabarets, matinee cabarets, parties, dances, and tancy-dress ma-queiades amid ...