... KEPT BUSY THF. activities of B. C. Hilliam A (Flotsam) are at the moment many and varied. A scries of key board doodling recitals, with Joy Flolman as vocal aide, are being in terspersed with commercial TV, tea with Elsie and Doris Waters on BBC TV (February 13), Variety Playhouse. on February 25, and a weekly Flotsword puzzle in the News Chronicle. the first cross word puzzle in rhyme ...

... TORQUAY'S SUMMER SEASON PLANS rpHE pattern of entertainment for Torquay's summer season follows that of the last live years. Michel Kebbv will present Sunshine Follies at the Concert Hall. Princess Pier, and Hedley Claxton will again have Gaytimc at the Concert Hall, Babbaconibe. For a second year Harold Field ing will present Music for the Millions at ihc Pavilion, opening June 25. Charles F ...

... MANAGERS' MEETING TTHE annual general meeting of the Institute of Municipal Enter tainments Managers was held last week, when the retiring president. J. E. Boddington, installed George Hill, general manager of entertain ments at Eastbourne, as his suc cessor. In his address, Mr. Hill paid tribute to the untiring way in which Mr. Boddington had carried out the many duties during his year of ...

... WEST END RETURN Columbia records singer Michael Holliday. who made his first appearance at the Caf ...

... O'DARE FOR PORTRUSH After a two-season absence. Terry O'Darc is returning to I'ortrush with indoor and outdoor shows. At the Town Hall. Terry's in Town will be the attraction, and at Ramore Head a feature of the alfrcsco show will he a Children's Corner. Although con tracts have not yet been signed. Mr. O'Darc is looking forward to returning to the popular Co. Antrim resort. He hopes to have ...

... THEIR ANNUAL TREAT The Roosters paid their annual visit to the Roosters' Blind Club at Leytonsione recently, when a warm reception was given to Jack Barker, Sidney Clark. Jimmy Graham. Percy Merriman. and Ed win Spencer Members of the club are always glad to welcome their old friends, whose yearly visit is i quite an event. ...

... NO FROST AT CAA CONCERT WARMER days than we've recently had were recalled at last Sunday's C.A.A. concert at Bloomsbury's Victoria Hall by the joint comperes, Clifford Hensley and Bill Pertwee, the latter making a good impression on his first visit, and the former being as breezy as ever. In a programme strong in singing, a new contralto. Margaret Justine, accompanied bv Arthur Carter, had ...

... FLYING VISIT (\N a flying visit to Exmouth was Horace Mashford. remembered lor his appearances in Palace of Varieties and the Exmouth sum mer show. The Follies, last season, and now playing in panto mime at Exeter Royal. After pantomime Mr. Mashford starts rehearsals lor revue, Chase the Blues Away, due to open at Rothcrham. March 5. Conita Dawn and Leslie Gunby. who were with Mr. Mashford ...