27 DECEMBER 1957, Page 23

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is now playing at Stratford-upon-Avon.

The usual prize of six guineas is offered for a, passage of not more than twelve lines of blank verse or ISO words of prose from The Yeomen of the Guard as William Shakespeare might have written it.

Entries, addressed 'Spectator Competition No. 411; 99 Gower Street, London, WCI, by January 7. Results on January 17.