27 JANUARY 1967, page 15

The Butterworth Lobby

M U SI C By CHARLES REID A SYWHONIC repertory that once looked like running aground on the `standards'— Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mozart (especially Mozart, about whom I......

Manly Men And Womanly Women Theatre

By HILARY SPURLING A LEKSEI ARBUZOV'S The Promise (at the For- tune) is the kind of play we don't often get these days, and certainly not from living play- wrights. Mr. Arbuzov......