21 SEPTEMBER 1956, page 18

Irbe 'pettator

SEPTEMBER 24, 1831 THE REFORM BILL.—At five o'clock on Mon- day, Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved the third reading of the Bill. The Speaker put the ques- tion. The "ayes" answered, as......

The Canticum Sacrum.

As in 1951, the great event of the Venice Festival this year is a new work by Stravinsky, specially commissioned for St. Mark's Cathe- dral. Rumour had it at first that the new......

Critic's Choice

FOR the second year Arthur Tooth and Sons have invited a critic—on this occasion Herbert Read—to choose an exhibition of paintings by a group of British artists whose work he......

Intrepid Victorian

THE KING AND I. (Carlton.) —EVERY SECOND COUNTS and THE GREEN MAN. (Gaumont.) . —LETTERS FROM MY WINDMILL. (Curzon.) TWO Rodgers and Hammerstein mtisicals in two weeks invite......