... . 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. 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 HAPPY HARBOUR. The Happy Harbour is one of the latest of West End clubs devoted to good fellowship, dancing, cabaret, and food and drink. The latter department is in the hands of Amori, late of the Ritz, the Savoy, and the Piccadilly, and one of the most experienced men at his job in London Those who put into the Happy Harbour are men and women connected with ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. The news that a cabaret in the year 1949, complete with music, costumes, etc., of the period, is to be a feature in a film which is being produced in Loudon, reminds us that cabaret scenes and night clubs are apparently as necessary to filmland as are camera-men and tins in whioh to place the company when securely canncd. Unfortunately, this canning habit lids spread ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. INDEPENDENCE DAY. When I said the opport for additional festivities and galas were over for the time being I was forgetting the Star Spangled Banner and Independence Day. It is u peculiarly American institution. To-day all America will be revelling. There will be sioning and speech-making, boot leggers will work overtime in their bottling departments, and the machine ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. JAZZ. One day last week a member of the film industry made the discovery that jazz was dying, and immediately issued a bulletin to that effect, adding that Hungarian music was coming in once more. This is hard on kinema musicians who have learned to rely on pation and jazz. As a matter of fact, we have watched jazz slowly fading away for some time, and have heard ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE MELTON. Harry Adams was duly Installed into his post as manager of the Melton on Tuesday last week. Something like 1,500 guests assisted at the celebrations, which ran on until aftor 3.30 in the morning. The club itself is beautifully appointed with mural decorations in soft colours that might be pink, very light blue, or grey, but the pink-shaded lamps and ...

... . 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. 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 ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE R.M.S. ''BERENGARIA. Southampton will once more be the secene of unusual revelry on April 11, when the Stage Guild will hold a grand ball and cabaret on the decks of the ''Berengaria, which has been lent by the Cunard line for the purpose. The pro-ceeds will ero to the Southampton Children's Hospital and the Guild. The general arrangements include a reception at 9 ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE THE YEAR. The opening months of the year saw what might be termed a miniature reign of terror. Night and cabaret clubs, which made entertainment and dancing merely a screen behind which to carry on a prosperous but illicit trade in bad liquor, had long thought tnemsoives immune. iney dis covered that nothing in this life is really certain. ]f the arm o* the law was ...