3 JANUARY 1970, page 35

Arts

Whoa! the fairies! HILARY SPURLING Christmas is a hard time in the theatre. Difficult to know whether to be more pleased or mortified at the sight, on the one hand, of so many......

Music

Old master MICHAEL NYMAN Imagining myself immune from novelty, wrapped up against surprise in the dying em- bers of the 'sixties, I was hardly prepared to be left gasping with......

Cinema

Dolly mixture ROBERT CUSHMAN Hello, Dolly! (Odeon, Marble Arch, V') Impiously updating Lorenz Hart's lyrics for Manhattan, I came up with: And `Hello Dolly' Is quite the......