... . By IVAN PATRICK GORE. SUPPER-TIME AT THE TROCADERO. Although this C. B. Cochran cabaret has now been running for some months every night at 11.30 sharp, it has by no means lost any of its original attractiveness. This youth is doubtless due to the regular infusion of new blood. Chief among the new acts is that of the Jerez Brothers. Their make-up is strictly American down to the j large ...

... . 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. 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. LOLITA COIDOBA. Among the new acts at the Queen's is Lolita Coidoba, a South-American dancer, lately with Blackbirds at the Pavilion, and a member of the original Parisian company. Of striking appearance and line figure, she specialises in the Charleston, and succeeds in getting more out of the dance than any other artist I have yet seen on the cabaret floor. She ...

... . 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. Things appear to get blacker every day for the many so-called night-clubs that have flourished so long in the West End under different names and a variety of alien exploiters Unfortunately not a few of the reputable ones are getting a publicity they do not desire, and are finding that, although the majority of the mud falls short, just a little of it sticks here and ...

... . 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. CHARITY . At a recent charity cabaret patrons bought cushions on which to sit on the floor and watch the show with some degree of comfort. If you bought two cushions you had a better view, but were not popular with those behind you who had only been ablo to afford one This cushion idea is by no means new, although it may be a novel aid to raising the wind. Floors, ...

... . 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 ...

... Totally Foxed HORNCHURCH AS MADCAP farces go, Justin Greene and Steve Cooke's Totally Foxed-- currently appearing at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch-- has all the zany ingredients of a quick-fire comedy: dubious characters, an improbable plot and even a case of mistaken identity. Where it succeeds is in its use ot new technology as the focus of the story line. The Corman Corporation are ...

... Cabaret CHESTER FOR HIS first Autumn Season at Chester Gateway, artistic director Peter Rowe pulls no punches with his splendid, bold production of the hit musical Cabaret, the book by Joe Masteroff based on the play I Am A Camera. Running in repertoire, from October 5 to 27. with C P Taylor's Good, the two productions sharing the same background of nightmare of the German Hurd Reich in ...

... Pack of Lies COVENTRY HUGH Whitmore's play offers a riveting evening's theatre in this production by John Durnin for the Belgrade. The atmosphere of quiet, suburban living is established immediately, helped by the authenticity of Adrian Rees' set: the ground floor of tmodest, outer-London house, its stained-glass window-lights casting patches of faint colour on the neutral cream walls, its ...