6 NOVEMBER 1953, page 12

Art

Roman Portrait Busts (Arts Council Gallery). To walk round the Baths of Diocletian in Rome is to find them—as indeed almost any Italian museum—as full of visual quotations as......

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE King John. By William Shakespeare. (Old Vic.)—Witness for the Prosecution. By Agatha Christie. (Winter Garden.) IN King John Shakespeare was for the first time trying......

Music

Prokoflev THE music of Prokoflev, who died last year, is enjoying a belated boom, and this last week his fifth symphony and two of his piano sonatas have been heard in London......