... . 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 ...

... . 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 ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. EMPRESS ROOMS. During the summer months cabaret is temporarily suspended at the Kensington resort, although recent bookings have included many stars and well-known acts including Graham and Barbara, dancers; Hengler Brothers, the Two Strong Silent Men; Vera Kayne and Ueorge Laurie in Stops and Styles Eddy Gray, a juggler with clubs and other things, who is a ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. TIOCADERO.--Champagne Time. Rarely has C. B. Cochran done better production-work than that seen in the new cabaret-revue in the Grill Room of the Trocadero; and Max Rivers, who is responsible for the dances and ensembles, is to be congratulated upon the amount of originality he has? aged to get into that part of the entertainment. The dressing is sometimes daring and ...