... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. HOTELS DE PARIS. Miller and Farrell opened at the Cafe de Paris on Monday. Their chief reputation here rests on their gramophone work. Ann Penn is the attraction at the Cafe Anglais this week, and Dora Maughan comes into the programme next week. Major phreys informs me that the Kit Cat will reopen in October with cabaret, but the artists have not vet been engaged. ...

... . 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 THE STAGE DOOR. Harry Adams's new club, the Stage Door will be opened early in the New Year. It is situated in Upper St Martin's Lane, within a few yards of the premises first proposed for the enterprise, and now occupied by the Arts Theatre. When the house is opened visitors will pass through a replica of the old Empire stage door, complete with anccdotal keepei and ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. There are several different classes and very distinct types of night and cabaret clubs. The majority of them claim Bohemian ism, although of late the term exclusive has begun to find favour. In night-club circles the degree of exclusiveness is judged by the amount of club subscription and the depths of the pockets of mem bers und their friends. It ha? really little ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. QUEEN'S: QUAI D'ORSAY. The new cabaret here produced on July 18 by Oscar M. Sheridan is probably the first of the enter tainments of the time that the new management of Charles B. Williams and Oscar M. Sheridan proposes to produce in London. The company engaged is an portant one, wiui several new comers, although old favourites at the Quai d'Or^ay are prominent. ...

... . 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. 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. BANDS. Practically all the hotels, restaurants, and cafes are employing bands, soloists, and artists according to the strength of the establishment to support such entertainment. Lyons must have many more bands and artists of all kinds working than any other firm, and the houseB they are building, Including the big restaurant on the old Oxford Musio Hall site, will ...

... . 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 ...