16 OCTOBER 1953, page 12

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......

Ballet

THE tradition in Spanish dancing, like that of the East, is so strong and so jealous as to permit of no appreciable growth—at least that is the evidence up till today. In the......

Cinema

Androcles and The Lion. (Rialto.)—The Intruder. (Empire.) BERNARD SHAW'S irreverent views on Christianity, so brilliantly expounded in that exceptionally poor play of his,......

Art -

Ayrton, Vaughan, Fairley. AT the Redfern Gallery Michael Ayrton is pursuing his "return to realism" with dogged tenacity. Listeners to The Critics last week- end may have heard......