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IMPUNITY JANE, by Rumer Godden (Viking; $2.50), boasts one of the smallest heroines in recent fiction: a four-inch china doll. Impunity, like Ibsen's Nora, rebels against the doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...
Please never again dignify in print Jane Russell's flippant and too earthy observations concerning God: "He's a Livin' Doll" [TIME, June 28]. It is the most tasteless comment, theological or otherwise, that I have ever heard...
...goin' to buy a paper doll that I can call...
...doll that other fellows cannot steal...
...Mask plunges abruptly into a nightmare evocation of Parisian gaiety, with pleasure seekers as dazed as opium eaters thronging a ballroom that resounds to the thunder of Gay Nineties music. When a doll-like male dancer collapses amid the frenzy, he is hustled belowstairs to a cubbyhole as though there could be no reminder of human ills at the frolic. A reluctant doctor (Claude Dauphin) is pulled away from a pliant girl to attend the patient and discovers that, under an ingenious, dandified mask, the sick man is an aging wreck. Dauphin takes the broken dancer home and listens reflectively...