... . 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 ...

... . 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. ENGLISH ACTS. Although cabaret managers are at last showing signs of taking a more friendly interest in native artists, and the owner of one of the most important floor shows in the West End has openly expressed his faith in them, there is still a good deal of room for improvement. A few weeks ago a manager declared that tho only possible draws were American or ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. Although old in America. France, and on the Continent generally, cabaret is practically a new form of entertainment here. Eats M and drinks are as im portant as musical and other form9 of entertainment, and this combi nation of feeding while being amlised might almost give the shows an ancestry dating back to the old palmy day 3 of vaudeville, when the world and his ...

... . 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. 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 ...

... On Saturday the Actor's Theatre presented a new play by Alasdair Grant called The Silent Jackdaw. This plav might be more accept able if 20th-century audiences be lieved in witchcraft. It is well written, with many effective situations find some poetically- embroidered dialogue; but one is left with a feeling of detach ment through being unable to share the superstitious emotions of the ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. CHINGFORD.--THE QUEEN ELIZABETH. W. O. White, the pioneer of genuine cabaret in the wilds, and at popular prices, has been ill for come time, suffering from severe nervous breakdown brought on by overwork and a lack of sufficient holidays. Meanwhile, business continues to grow, and even the greatly-enlarged dancing hall is *t rained at times to hold a public that ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. CHARITY S. Cabaret is becoming ever more popular as a means of raising funds for charity. It is more intimate than the old bazaar, and has a bette aroma than the jumble sale. Moreover we have a much greater licence in the things we can do. There is more real excitement in a good dancing team than in watching the curate make a mess of bringing guinea pigs out of a ...

... . 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. LE SOLEIL. Of course, now that winter time has followed summer Old So is a little oftener in the programme than he has been these past months and it is the avowed attention of the management of the new Soleil club, which has opened in Gerrard Street to keep him there as much as posaible. The new 'club is a members' club, with a committee elected for the first year by ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THAMES RIVIERA. To-day (Thursday) sees the opening of the second season of A. E. Bundy's attempt to turn tho luck of that island at Hampton Court which originally took its name from one Tagg, and is now, after various rechristenings, known as the Thames Riviera. In the last few years it has played hvoc with the fortunes of several people. Fred Karno called it the ...