... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. GREEN PARK HOTEL: DINICU. While the majority of hotels, restaurants, and clubs were celebrating Leap Year Night, the Green Park Hotel was providing ita patrons with a musical entertainment such as is very rarely heard. Dinicu and his band were not easy to get. Mr. Casali? had to pay a visit, to Bucharest to persuado the violinist King of the Tziganes to accept the en ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THAMES RIVIERA. Now that Herbert Cecil has started Tagg's Hand in its new form, there seems every possibility of the place vieing with the other up-river resorts in popularity. A big feature about Riviera is that it does not depend upon sunshine, and it is not at tho merey of the elements, although, of course, the bathing beach must necessarily suffer in bad weather. ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE PICCADILLY. Colonel Elwy Jones is not one of the pessimists, nor is he worried about the future of oabaret. The reason for these happy views of life is possibly the fact that the business at the Piccadilly is remarkably good. This popularity is doubtless due in part to the fact that dancing in ordinary day clothes is the rule on Sunday nights. Last Monday Davy ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. SHOOTING THE KIT-CAT. Although many night clubs and cabarets have been used for topical and news-reel pictures--and a very popular oabaret act consists of making a short and lurid melodrama with the members of a club being worked as actors--to the best of my belief the only time on which a genuine cabaret floor has been used as a scene without interfering with tho ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE SILVER SLIPPER. Following on the footsteps of the Kit Cat, which, after ending its career as a night club, blossomed out in due course as a restaurant the Silver Slipper in Regent Street is now open to the general public, which can eat, dance, and see a good cabaret entertainment. Although there is no great difference between the actual entertainment of the caba ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. The other day I went into a club which only a few nights before had been raided. I had known it when the entertainment was in full swing, and the difference was remarkable, almost ghastly. Just a short time back tho atmosphere had boon one of music and laughter, honest ap plause for the artists who took the floor, soft light} and a, perhaps, too lioavily scentcd air. ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. MURRAY'S: The Revival. For some time past club and restaurant cabaret has consisted of a competent dance band, two or three acta, often only one, and on occasion volunteer turns. Murray's, which itself has been running individual acts, since the Vladimir Zaaloff season with the Russian abaret, is now responsible for a distinct u come-back to the old floor show, and ...

... . BY IVAN PATRICK GORE. CHARITY . At a recent charity cabaret patrons bought cushions on which to sit on the floor and watch the show with some degree of comfort. If you bought two cushions you had a better view, but were not popular with those behind you who had only been ablo to afford one This cushion idea is by no means new, although it may be a novel aid to raising the wind. Floors, ...

... . BY IVAN PATRICK GORE. Things appear to get blacker every day for the many so-called night-clubs that have flourished so long in the West End under different names and a variety of alien exploiters Unfortunately not a few of the reputable ones are getting a publicity they do not desire, and are finding that, although the majority of the mud falls short, just a little of it sticks here and ...

... . 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 ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. MURRAY'S FROLICS. After a few weeks of first-class individual acts Murray's returned to full production last Sunday. As before, Martin Adeson, jun., is the producer, and with Cicely Compton carries the weight of the show on his shoulders. Again tile production work is thorough, and the entertainment enjoyable, ulthough the final halt of the programme is by no means ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. CLOSURES. Speaking in the House of Commons a week ago the Home Secretary said that within the last three years forty-eight night clubs had been struck off the register and closed. He did not think it necessary to appoint a special commission to inquire into the matter. A munuer o-i anens naa, owing to recent proceedings, left the coun try. With tho exception of the ...