6 SEPTEMBER 1963, page 20

That Sunlight

That sunlight has gone now : Fallen on Africa, hammered into the hard, red dirt. In the picture it still shines though, Matt On the river, smooth on the man's shirt, Striking......

Long Time Dying

Exit the King. (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh.) In the event, the audience at the Lyceum didn't appear to mind sitting for an hour and three- quarters. I myself did mind, latterly.......

Luisa Miller

WE can almost put our fingers on the exact moment when Verdi's Luisa Miller ceases to be a conventional melodrama acted out by passionate puppets and be- comes a true drama of......