16 OCTOBER 1953, page 11

Music

" How are we to find the diamond hidden in the dunghill?" asks Dr. Vaughan Williams in his introduction to the autumn prospectus issued by the Society for the Promotion of New......

Theatre

The King and I. By Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II • from Anna and The King of Siam by Margaret Landon. (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.)—Birth- day Honours. By Paul Jones.......

Contemporary Arts

THE LEEDS FESTIVAL LEEDS has done well this year by its critics, who have often complained, not without justice, that it is too conservative. The big choral festivals are apt to......