20 SEPTEMBER 1957, page 17

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.'......

Thin On The Ground

Television uses up talent fast. Television, to exist, needs more and more new, live people with something to say. The way it's going—spreading talent thin, pretending an ounce......

A Maturing Painter .

AGAIN, and so soon it seems, John Bratby is holding a large one-man show and as always his work at least forces the spectator to make 0 0 a positive response and assessment. On......