... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. GROSVENOR HOUSE. Park Lane naturally demands something rather out of the usual in dinner and supper-time entertainment, and with the aid of Francis A. Mangan, of London, New York, Paris, Dublin. Manchester. at all of which places he is busily staging unique dancing and mizniiis: shows, tho Grosvenor Hons is able to find it. For the past few weeks the floor has been ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE THE TRAFALGAR. Once upon a time the Trafalgai Restaurant was the grill-room, or porhaps tho billiard-room, of the Grand Hotel. To-day, under the management of B. Vercelli and his two brothers, it is one of the most popular first-class restaurants in the West End. Within a few B weeks, however, it will change its D name to Ohantilly, thereby relin- t quishing the right ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. CHANTILLY, Once known as the Trafalgar this restaurant, which is now under the direction of E. G. Vercelli and his brothers, has father an enviable position, inasmuch as it might be said to be in the sacred precincts of Whitehall, a place full of brass hats and all sorts of nig guns. It can tap another useful section of society via the MalL A great attraction is ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE HOLIDAY The sudden heat wave and glorious weather on Monday threw a monkey-wrench into the holiday machinery of hotel, restaurant, and club cabaret. London--that is to say, the London that mostly has the cash to indulge in dinner and supper amusement--had dashed away at the first sign of the sun, and dinner tables that should have been crowded were desolate, ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE RIVERSIDE. Thames Riviera, the popular riverside resort, reopened success fully two weeks ago. Grounds, gardens, redecorations, cuisine wines, all came up to expectations and the entertainment provided was capital, but without being out of the ordinary. The hotel Paris, Bray, started its seasot last week. This establishment with the management of which Colonel ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. LYONS. Trocabaret has a long list of first-class artists for this month and next. The Cochran cabaret revue The Prosperity Party runs on in the grill-room as merrily as ever, the Melvilles, the clever comic jugglers, now taking the place of Dekker and Pan. In port of the talkative Maurice, we have many old favourites, includ ing Mr. Flotsam and Mr. Jetsam, Nairn on ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. QUEEN'S. The return of Will Honder and his band has made a notable change, both in the music and the business. Hender himself and hit instruments do a great deal of work and take up a lot of room. There is a big fellow, fondly called a marimba-xylophone, which is capable of all sorts of noises from tiopical storms to the cooing of love-sick pigeons. Until I met this, ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE ROAD HOUSE. When the Road House, the latest of London's West End clubs opens its doors, Harry Adams will be found in charge of the entertainments. Harry Gordon will lead the orchestra, and the opening cabaret will be headed by Lilian Lowe and Allan Shires. The limes in Leicester Square have been contorted from on old-timi- kinema which was fondly known a* Cupid's ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. With the same regularity as the first cuckoo is heard to herald spring comes the statement that there is nothing to do in London on Sunday night, nothing to but visit a kinema, or go to some private theatrical performance if you happen to be one of the lucky ones. As a fact, this it quite a fallacy, probably in spired by the apparent, deadntfss of the West ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THE PICCADILLY. The twice-nightly and everchanging editions of Playtime at the Piccadilly are among the best of tho dinner-supper entertainments in the West End. In the old days sumptuous production was usual, and on one occasion a novel note was struck by putting on the cabaret in the form of a circus. Now the management and the pub lic are satisfied with one or ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. LE SOLEIL. Of course, now that winter time has followed summer Old So is a little oftener in the programme than he has been these past months and it is the avowed attention of the management of the new Soleil club, which has opened in Gerrard Street to keep him there as much as posaible. The new 'club is a members' club, with a committee elected for the first year by ...

... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. THAMES RIVIERA. To-day (Thursday) sees the opening of the second season of A. E. Bundy's attempt to turn tho luck of that island at Hampton Court which originally took its name from one Tagg, and is now, after various rechristenings, known as the Thames Riviera. In the last few years it has played hvoc with the fortunes of several people. Fred Karno called it the ...