27 MARCH 1953, Page 20

Blue-green, not Black

SIR,—In your edition of 20th March, your critic, Mr. Martin Cooper, writing of.Sutermeister's Romeo and Juliet, asks why Juliet was dressed in " funeral black " on the occasion of her betrothal. The answer is quite simple. She was not wearing any sort of black, but blue-green (or-green-blue, or indigo). I have often heard rumours that a highly developed aural sense tends to decrease the visual perception, but I must confess I have never encountered such a first-rate example as this.—