... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. RACE WEEK. Big national sporting events are always hailed with special favour by cabarets. and to meet the demands of those who wish to celebrate, as well as those who would fain forget, very few managements fail to add extra attractions of some sort or another to their ing programmes. The entertain ments for Derby Night this year were on an unusually lavish scale. ...

... . A sumptuous, beautifully produced, and exceedingly valuable work, not without bearing on stage matters, is that on British Costume during Nineteen Centuries (Civil and Ecclesiastical), by Mrs. Charles H. Ashdown, published at 12s. 6d. net by T. C. and E. C. Jack. Mrs. Ash down, who is a lecturer upon costume and medieval ncad-oressco, ana nas aaviscu upon costume at several of the ...

... . r>RWl.Va-ROOM ENTIRTirNICtNT3 Under tlii* title Is published by Stan- lay 1'u.ul and Co., at 2b. not, a little volume of monologues, duologues, and dialogue*, Cor drawing-room ami plat form use, written by Catherine Kvclyn, Clare Shirley Robert Overton, ana others, and edited by Alfred 11. Miles. 1 The two first-named corttrlbut* moot of 1 the Items tn a oollecUon likely to pror acceptable ...

... . 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. QUEEN'S Among the reoent acts working in the standing cabaret here are Monty Woulf and Lillian Lowe. Both have appeared in the Leicester Square house previously, and are exceedingly popular with Quai d'Orsay audiences. Miss Lowe remains in the programme, which also includes a couple of clever ecoentrio acrobats, the Arva Brothers. Regina West, whose en gagement must ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. QUEEN'S: NIGHT-TIME REVELS OF 1927. After some months' absence from tho Qual d'Orsay, Henry de Bray has returned to produce for Mme. Coletta, and has constructed a good entertainment, although the dressing is not quite up to the cabaret's standard. Swiftly on the spirited opening by the girls. ?yyho sing that they ae lonely, omes Carletta Mossetti with a good number, ...

... . By IVAN. PATRICK GORE. PLAYTIME AT THE PICCADILLY. E. O. Lcndley, who used to run cabaret at the Piccadilly in conjunction with Harry Foster, and more recently was on his own account, has now severed hie connection with the entertainment. It is now being run by Colonel Elwy Jones. Tlie change has meant a good deal of reorganisation, the chief item of which has been the wholesale removal ...

... . 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 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. 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 ...