20 SEPTEMBER 1957, page 16

Contemporary Arts

Bitterness Creeps In A King in New York. (Leicester Square Theatre and Cameo- Polytechnic.) This isn't a political film, I'm not a politician, it's about people, not politics.'......

Sir,—will The Spectator Give Me An Opportunity Of...

slur on a good man's name which occurs in A History of Punch, by R. G. G. Price? He tells the world that G. L. Stampa, whose drawings ap- peared in the paper for fifty years,......

Sweeping The Streets

SIR, — ln evidence before the Wolfcnden Committee I suggested that if the streets must be cleared of prostitutes by penalties, this be effected by high fines, not imprisonment.......

Housewives' Paintings

SIR,—As the Organiser of the National Exhibition of Housewives' Painting, which is by the way a selection from some 8,000 pictures submitted re- cently for a painting......

Tijt *pettator

SEPTEMBER 22, 1832 ACTIVE steps are said to be taken to carry the pro- jected railway from Brighton to London into effect. It is intended to apply to Parliament, as soon as it......

'axed' Sin,—it Would Appear That Your Correspondent (as...

case of a retired Group Captain who wrote an article in a well-known daily newspaper recently) has not heard of the 'Over Forty-Fives' Association, where a man of fifty is......