... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. QUEENS. Six Coney Islanders. Fred Spreadbury's Six Coney Islanders, presented by Geoffrey Hope and Vivian Palmer, took the place on Monday night of the regular cabaret entertainment which has become so popular on the floor of the Quai d'Orsay. It is difficult to understand Mine. Colctta'B reason for importing this baud and its attendant quartet of dancers. The band is ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. JAZZ. One day last week a member of the film industry made the discovery that jazz was dying, and immediately issued a bulletin to that effect, adding that Hungarian music was coming in once more. This is hard on kinema musicians who have learned to rely on pation and jazz. As a matter of fact, we have watched jazz slowly fading away for some time, and have heard ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE R.M.S. ''BERENGARIA. Southampton will once more be the secene of unusual revelry on April 11, when the Stage Guild will hold a grand ball and cabaret on the decks of the ''Berengaria, which has been lent by the Cunard line for the purpose. The pro-ceeds will ero to the Southampton Children's Hospital and the Guild. The general arrangements include a reception at 9 ...

... . 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. THE MELTON. Harry Adams was duly Installed into his post as manager of the Melton on Tuesday last week. Something like 1,500 guests assisted at the celebrations, which ran on until aftor 3.30 in the morning. The club itself is beautifully appointed with mural decorations in soft colours that might be pink, very light blue, or grey, but the pink-shaded lamps and ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. HUNGARIA RIVER CLUB. Very soon now the club that once was Murray's River will be calling its members and their friends to the gardens and verandahs close to Maidenhead Bridgo. The new establishment might be said to have been born with a silver spoon in its mouth, for, like its brother the Regent Street restaurant, it has the direct backing and support of tho ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE, ELECTION NIGHT. To-night is undoubtedly the night in the West End. Managements of night cabaret clubs and restaurants are putting on special shows, making presentations to the ladies, getting extensions, all for the purpose of letting members and guests know just exactly what tho political late ol the country is going to be. Tho Cosmo Club, with its 3,000 members, is ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE WINTER GARDENS, PUTNEY. The Winter Gardens undoubtedly lead as far as suburban cabaret goes. Part and parcel of the Star and Garter, they overlook the Thames and provide comfortable accommodation for revellers and dancers who come from far afield to swell tho local crowd. Under the management of H. Davis, who also has interests in the West End, the popularity of the ...

... . 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. 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. THE MELTON. At the moment Harry Adams has his hands full with the big Melton in Regent Street and the smaller Merry Grill in St. Martin's Lane. At the latter things are improving steadily under the management of Captain Thursfield, and the number of country members is noticeable. The ladies' gipsy band is excellent. At the Melton a feature is made of pecial fights. ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE PENTAGRAM. Pentagram is a cheery society of Bohemians from all ranks of the entertainment world-- legit, vaudeville, cabaret, films, the clubs, which are so little heard of by the ordinary pleasure seeker--banded together to bring brightness into otherwise drab lives. ing on the motto Our happiness is in the happiness of others, Pen-' tagramists went all out last ...