Quaintest Artiste, who has been described as a "combination of Marie Lloyd, Connie Ediss and Ethel Levy,' but like none of them.
June. The charming singer and dancer from "Fun of the Favre."
Monday Night Extension to 2 am. Dancing from 9.30 p.m.
Fred Duprez. The really funny talker who was Mr. atten.
Walter Williams. The light Comedian from "Fun of the Favre'? and other Star attractions.
New Follies Syncopated Orchestra "The Midnight Follies' ig the choric: Show in London. The Brightest Spot in Brighter London. You may Sup, Dance, Revel and Enjoy a High-class "Star" Cabaret for an inclusive fee of £1 (Gala Extensions this week:—Monday, Wednesday (Empire Day) and Friday).
Competition like this must deal a deadly blow at theatres, since these entertainments are subject to no Entertainments Tax as the diversion is reckoned in the charge for the food, and they are subject to no harassing restrictions, such as every theatre or music-hall is a victim of. Theatres are very uneasy about this new development, but they hava not yet decided actually to oppose them. They would have done so but for the fact that many of the theatre managers are in this new move as well as ju theatres, and their interests are therefore divided. By the way, it seems very doubtful if there will be any red~ction in the Entertainments Tax this year, but if there is none, then it is quite clear that bankruptcy awaits any number of concerns.
The law with regard to the early closing of public houses and refreshment bars, where they sell alcohol, is being productive of a uew sliding bar. At the appointed hour it slides into position, and cuts off the bar from the rest of the refreshment room where—business goes on og usual up to @ late hour. catering and accustoming the Eng-Jish public only to eat Lyons' food. the taste for stimulants will give place to the liking for tea, coffee end cocoa, which you can get till any hour at night. One doubts it, but at the same time the late night tea-shop is becoming more and more suggestive of some of the refreshment places one meets with on the Paris boulevards. It is not, however, very difficult to obtain special permits to keep open late, since although they are not granted to licence-holders, any person giving a dance and paying for the stimulants consumed has never any difficulty in making the necessary arrangements. From this it will be seen that almost every change nowadays.is breaking up purely family life. This may go on in the country doubtless, but in London there is less and less of it and people are becoming more and more accustomed to live in public, dine in public and to do all their entertaining in public. These tendencies move in cycles, and we may have a change in years to come, but none is in sight at present. The visitor, therefore, who comes home for a quiet time in London may as well be warned in advance that he is not likely to get it. He had, therefore, better berake himself to some spot well away from the metropolis.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.