... . 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 ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. HUNGARIA RIVER CLUB. Very soon now the club that once was Murray's River will be calling its members and their friends to the gardens and verandahs close to Maidenhead Bridgo. The new establishment might be said to have been born with a silver spoon in its mouth, for, like its brother the Regent Street restaurant, it has the direct backing and support of tho ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE, ELECTION NIGHT. To-night is undoubtedly the night in the West End. Managements of night cabaret clubs and restaurants are putting on special shows, making presentations to the ladies, getting extensions, all for the purpose of letting members and guests know just exactly what tho political late ol the country is going to be. Tho Cosmo Club, with its 3,000 members, is ...

... FORTUNE FROM FIRST EDITIONS By OLIVER WAY Tracking Rare Volumes to Their Lumber-Room Lairs Some Living Writers Worth Backing HE was a retired Indian Civil Servant, and not, as he said himself, much of ...

... By OLIVER WAY THE first two novels on my list this week are strong meat. They are not to be recom mended to maiden aunts: the sort of maiden aunt, I mean, who sedulously hid The B ...

... By OLIVER WAY IT is not my job in these pages to discuss politics, nor to examine the contention, so frequently voiced nowadays, that Parliament, as an institution of Government, ...

... O Or0* q*c on THE THREE SISTERS. (The Fortune Theatre.) IF ever I get a thorough knowledge of the Rus sian tongue my first task will be to find out if the queer speech used in the novels and plays trans lated from that language into English is a genuine representation of the original. No doubt the difficulties are immense, the poor translator never knowing where trans lation should end and a ...

... The Literary Lounger. By Alan Kemp. y* UULMIMI 1 From the Dominions. The sun never sets on the British Empire, but it has not yet fully risen on the literature of the British Empire. It is diffi cult to understand why; there is no obvious reason why creative talent should not assert itself as much in the Dominions as in Europe. The treasures of our literature are a common heritage human nature ...

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... The Cinema By JAMES AGATE. England's, and Vitaplhome's, Darlings I SUPPOSE that some day I shall be able to enter the Piccadilly Theatre without hearing Mr. Martinelli bellowing On With the Motley. But that day is not yet. And I suppose, too, that some day I shall be able to attend this theatre or picture-house without my attention being claimed on behalf of the black races. But that also is ...

... The Cinema A Paris Idol By JAMES AGATE. CURIOUSER and curiouser, said Alice in some connection or other. I can never stop wondering what that heavenly young woman would have said if she had had leisure to inspect the films, which, as time goes on, become funnier and funnier in a strictly sub conscious way. The other evening I fought my own way into a seat at the Plaza during an exordium by ...