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KINGFISHERS CATCH FIRE (282 pp.)-Rumer Godden-Viking...
...English Novelist Rumer Godden is a success. The author of ten novels, several of them about India, she fashions neat plots, her dialogue sparkles, her people have a reasonable resemblance to living beings. Since she usually muffles her main point in soft-focus symbolism, it is not always possible to say with assurance what it is that Novelist Godden is trying to say. Nonetheless, her last two books have sold close to 275,000 copies, and her A Breath of Air was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection...
When they arrive, Sophie says, "How picturesque." Teresa adds, "And dirty. "Author Godden, tongue conspicuously in cheek, works every comic possibility in the confrontation of sentimental Sophie and the Kashmir peasants. When Sophie offers to give her servants a day off, they ask in astonishment, "But-for what?" and one of them adds crushingly, "Holidays should come from God." The whole social structure of the village is upset by Sophie's munificence, for though she considers herself poverty stricken, they are overwhelmed by her riches. Soon the situation turns ugly: she finds ground glass and belladonna in her food...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Rumer Godden's A Candle for St. Jude, with Tanaquil LeClercq, Marc Platt...
...River. Director Jean Renoir's sensitive story of an English girl growing into adolescence beside a holy river in India; based on Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel (TIME, Sept...