... Sponsors boost Cromer Sunday shows SUNDAY SHOWS for the summer season in Cromer Pavilion Theatre, organised by Dick Condon in conjunction with the North Norfolk District Council, have been given a boost by a number of sponsors, including local and national firms. This is an improvement on last year's tentative introduction to sponsorship, offering ample scope for further development in future ...

... PARK LANE'S Grosvenor House is presenting the magical combina tion of ELLA FITZGERALD (above) and Oscar Peterson with the Ron nie Scott Orchestra as part of its highly successful annual summer season. The Grosvenor House produc tion will bring Fitzgerald and Peterson together on the same bill for the first time in the UK since 1955. Ella Fitzgerald will be accompanied by the Paul Smith Trio ...

... Top names pay at the Out Of Town venue A STAR NAME cabaret policy is paying off for owner Sam Mot- ani at the Out Of Town at Pad- worth, Reading, where Frankie Vaughan is among the top acts due to appear. Since he acquired the Berkshire nightspot 15 months ago, Motani has featured many leading attractions, particularly top comedians like Jim Davidson. Charlie Daze, Ivor Davis and Mike Reid, ...

... Harlem Globetrotters at Wembley THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS, the basketball team who have bridged the gap between sport and entertainment, are back at the Wembley Arena from May 14 to 24. Their last defeat was in the 70/71 season, since when they have played over 3,000 matches. Their brand of on-court entertainment is accom panied by a programme of variety acts. Nightly matches begin at 7.45 ,pm ...

... Protest as contest bans female entrants MOIRA PETTY reports AN UP-AND-COMING young magicienne has strongly protested at a ban on female entrants by the organisers of the prestigious Young Magician of the Year competition. 13-year-old Stacey Lee, who has played prestigious dates at Blazer's and Cesars Palace, was disqualified from the annual contest, run by the London Magic Circle, purely on ...

... Cleveland clubs honour for Sandra CLEVELAND CLUBS Association has just appointed its first ever woman honorary member-- Sandra White, hostess and promotions girl at Stockton's Club Fiesta. Sandra appeared before a meeting of the Association to file details of a special Fiesta promotional offer, and tney were so impressed that she was given honorary membership. Hard-pressed by the results of ...

... Lennie without Jerry that's final! AFTER A number of false alarms, the comedy partnership of Lennie Bennett and Jerry Stevens has finally ended. The decision was made by Bennett who felt it was time to call it a day. I honestly thought we had done as well as we were ever going to do. The concept of two comedians in tandem worked well for. four television series, but it is a policy of diminish ...

... Headliners at Hastings THE WHITE ROCK Pavilion at Hastings is to feature three headliners between July 1 and Sep tember 6. Bernie Winters kicks the season off, until July 19, followed by Lennie Bennett (July 21 to August 2) and Vince Hill (August 4 to Sep tember 6). The venue is currently staging Those Were the Days, old time music hall, starring Peter Brough and Archie Andrews with ...

... Darpana Group SADLER'S WELLS COMPETITION from other dance events, both live and on television, may have deflected attention from the visit to London of one of the world's most notable dance figures, Mrinalini Sarabhai, whose Darpana group, founded over 30 years ago, has introduced the splendours and I mysteries of Indian dance to over 40 countries. It has been many years since she r last ...

... Sara And Jerry Pearson LABAN CENTRE AT THE END of their recent residency at the Laban Centre (where they proved tough and in vigorating teachers) Sara and Jerry Pearson gave a refreshingly light and entertaining performance. Sara is small, compact and vivacious, with an easy facility for speed, multi-turns and rapid swirls on her heels: though she is hindered by feet that do not point, and ...

... Beiart Ballet COLISEUM IF YOU are accustomed to the delicate musical sensitivities of Ashton with Chopin's Variations Don Giovanni in A Month in the Country it is hard to be unbiased when another choreographer turns to the same music. Especially when it is Maurice Bejart and his Belgian let of the 20th Century (at the Col iseum) and the romantic lyricism of the music is ignored in ...

... Adam Darius MAYFAIR IT IS misleading to describe this programme, shortly to be seen on tour to Latin America, as the performers themselves do--this is not a case of mime artists so much as one of dance performers. There are many kinds of wordless theatre, from the ascetic to the self-indulgent, and there are arguably just as many audiences. I was worried, however, by the use of operatic ...