... Exclusive Wellington goes for cabaret audience By PETER HEPPLE ONE OF London's oldest established and most select membership clubs, the Wellington Club, on the north side of Knightsbridge near Hyde Park Corner, is trying cabaret evenings in its 60-seater restaurant. Originally opened in 1934 in the corner of the building occupied by the exclusive block of flats, Knightsbridge Court, the ...

... Pop stars rally to Greenpeace cause By ANGELA THOMAS SOME of Britain's top pop stars are lining up for a series of benefit concerts in aid of the environmen tal group Greenpeace. Sting, Billy Bragg, King, Madness and Nik Kershaw are among those who have already pledged their support for the five concerts which will be staged at the Royal Albert Hall in April. The concerts are being organised ...

... No Crush bar in Eastbourne EASTBOURNE Council has announced that Bobby Crush and John ny More arc to star in Showtime '86, opening a summer season at the Royal Hippodrome on June 16. At the Devonshire Park, there will again be two plays staged during the summer. From May 26 for seven weeks Mollie Sugden and her husband Wil liam Moore will star in the comedy thriller My Giddy Aunt, by Ray ...

... Shabby mistake BRIAN WHEELER played Shabby, the seventh dwarf, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Liverpool r-- Empire. We apologise for leaving his name out of our review of this show. IT WAS Richard Frost, not Robert Frost, as was printed, who appeared in Mother Goose at Nottingham Play house. He has now gone on the national tour of The Real Thing, playing the role of Max. ...

... Musicians warned not to ignore royalty payments MUSICIANS may be missing out on massive royalty earnings because they are too wrapped up in their art to worry about business, according to accountants Touche Ross. One leading international recording artist was found to be as much as £500,000 down after the firm looked into record company contracts. Other royalty claims of between £20,000 and ...

... By HELEN GOULD FORGOTTEN West German-based families of British servicemen have sent out a desperate appeal for entertainment, after government defence cuts halted variety tours to their camps. The Ministry of Defence ordered a freeze on showbiz spending for UK troops in Germany, Cyprus and Gibraltar three years ago. Families left alone in German bases had to wait until last month for their ...

... The show goes on at Gorleston THE SAGA of the Gorleston Pavilion was resolved at a recent council meeting in Great Yarmouth. For some weeks a question mark has hung over the sea side theatre, which has been run suc cessfully for the past seven years by East Anglian impresario and Entertainer Carl Adams. The lease was up for grabs this year and it was suggested that the building was ideal for a ...

... Bosses win royalty rates rise fight BRITISH record bosses have won their two-year fight against a rise in royalty rates to songwriters, which had threatened to force major companies into spending cuts and smaller labels out of business. Royalty collection agency, the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society had demanded that British rates be boosted by more than one per cent to bring them in ...

... A Grand pay off A BUMPER year has enabled Blackpool Grand Theatre to pay £10,000 off a loan it received 11 years ago. Representatives of the Grand Theatre Trust presented the cash to Blackpool Mayor Jack Smith as part repayment of a £50,000 interest-free loan granted by the council in 1980. The theatre repaid £5,000 in 1984 and the council agreed in 1985 that the £45,000 balance should remain ...

... Centre pays Panto's price AN ARTS centre has finally agreed to pay for a pantomime 12 months after it was cancelled. Actor Joe Ging spent most of the summer of 1 990 writing the Jack and the Beanstalk panto planned for Hexham's Queen's Hall arts centre. He even turned down the chance of an Italian performance so he could continue to work on the script with Tyneside comedian, Billy Clark. But ...

... Derngate conjures up Panto Aid for orphans NORTHAMPTON'S Derngate this week sent out an urgent call for every theatre and pantomime company in Britain to join its Christmas appeal to raise money for emergency medical aid for Romanian orphans. Harrowing press reports of the continuing plight of youngsters, like two-year-old Catalina (pic tured above), a year after the Ceauscscu regime collapsed ...

... Chrysalis to convert church into studio MUSIC giant Chrysalis is plan ning to transform a Victorian Church in Hampstead into its new recording base and a live concert venue and theatre for the capital. The Grade II listed building at Lyndhurst Hall is to undergo a £10 million conversion into a multi-pur pose complex incorporating a record ing studios, all-purpose theatre, video and editing ...