... . 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. THE HOLBORN. Following on a long succession of individually managed cabarets and first-class acts, the Holborn has again acquired Gordon Marsh and his Marshmallow Girls, who will present their cabaret for a month. As before, a strong nautical .lavour predominates in this produced and dressed show. It is of the lightning order, and no time is lost. The whole ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE DANCE. Dancing is in full swing in hundreds of places, both great and small, from the aristocratic floor of the Grosvenor House to the dingy but no less jolly palais de danse of the far East End. Gala nights are weekly occurrences, and few are considered complete without cabaret, while bands are in groat demand. Oovent Garden, which rumour says will end its ...

... . THE CASE OF ALLAN MONKHOUSE. 14 The Conquering Hero, a play in four acts. Jly Allan Monk- house. Ernest Benn, Ltd. 2s. 6:1. There are people, and not a few either, who will tell you that Allan Monkhouse is the Great Unknown of British Drama; certainly his name is better known in literary than in dramatic circles, and no play of his has ever been produced for a run in the West End. In ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. TROCADERO: MERRY-GO-ROUND. Produced on October 4, Mr. Cochran's new cabaret is one of the best entertainments of its kind the West End has seen. The greater portion of it takes place on a stage, and this with the elaborate nature of several items in the programme together with scenery, makes it a little more revue-like than usual. With a few additional features and ...

... . 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. THE SILVER SLIPPER. This club maintains its hold on the night-time public in a way that is the envy of many of its fellows. The silver slippers which were so marked a feature of the opening night nearly a year ago seem to retain their supremacy on the glass dancing floor, which is as artistically lighted and as slip- pery a proposition for those who are neither ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK CORE. KENNINGTON: THE COCK TAVERN. This famous old professional house of call in the Kenning- ton Koad was once the rendezvous of audi never-to-be-forgotten artists as Dan Leno and Arthur Godfrey, who were wont to foregather with their colleagues in the days when life was simpler; except perhaps, for having to work several (halls a night, and con viviality could run. on ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE LONDON. Once again there is a change in the management of this rendezvous, the new head of affairs being John Sinclair. Further alterations are promised within a few weeks, and it is hoped that these will bring the establishment into hne with the other West-End clubs devoted to caparer and dancing. The London, which has been open for some years, and has seen ...

... . 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 ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE STAGE DOOR. Harry Adams opened the new cabaret club, the Stage Door, in St Martin's Lane on Saturday night. in this enterprise he is associated with Eddie Dolly, and various of his old staff have followed him from the Blue Peter in Gt. Windmill Street. The frontage is of red brick, and just inside the main door is a replica of an old-time theatre stage door. It ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. A search around the West End on Christmas Eve revealed the fact that the usual cabaret patron was bent on other things, at least in the earlier hours of the night. They were either collecting seasonable spoils playing at Santa Klaus, or singing carols. Nor were many of tho managers in evidence. The whereabouts of most were unknown by their staffs, who shook uncertain ...