From dancing penguins, performing elephants and polar bears to star turns from the likes of Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra – the Hippodrome in its heyday was a byword for glamour and excess. Now an ambitious attempt to revive London’s landmark to 1950s’ splendour faces being derailed by plans to turn it into a casino. The Hippodrome, on the corner of Leicester Square, is to open its doors to the public soon for the first time in years for a cabaret show...