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...days gone by, when the sun never set on the British Empire, old India hands toted the white man's burden, and Rudyard Kipling wrote about it in some 35 volumes of prose and poetry. Now that the burden has been lifted, many an old India hand has little to tote but a stiff upper lip. Not so John Masters, exbrigadier of the Indian army. Bounced out of India by Indian independence, he has bounced right back again, figuratively, at least, with a self-imposed burden of Kiplingesque dimensions. The burden: to write 35 novels about the land...
Until recently few connoisseurs paid much attention to Kalighat painting (though Rudyard Kipling's father did buy 15 examples, which the son later presented without comment to the Victoria & Albert Museum). Fifty years ago anyone with half an eye, a few dollars and an old portfolio might have amassed a comprehensive collection of the art; today Kalighat pictures are hard to find...
...brilliantly faced up to some difficult situations. One script was turned down at the last minute when a sure-eyed adman found that its plot revolved about a leaky refrigerator. And, to protect the tender sensibilities of Westinghouse's lamp department, Studio One obligingly switched the title of Rudyard Kipling's The Light That Failed to The Gathering Night...
...grew reminiscent. "I notice that the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize was Mr. Rudyard Kipling, and that another equally rewarded was Mr. Bernard Shaw... I knew them both quite well, and my thought was much more in accord with Mr. Rudyard Kipling. On the other hand, Mr. Rudyard Kipling never thought much of me, whereas Mr. Bernard Shaw* often expressed himself in the most flattering terms...
Studio One Summer Theater (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). A play based on Rudyard Kipling's The Light That Failed...