Word: caroll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other protectors and detractors were gathering on all sides. Eleanor Holm Rose, who owns a $5,000 piece of Carol's show (given her for their tenth anniversary by husband Billy), had offered to help find (at wholesale) a mink coat suitable to her eminence. Even old friends in high places were paying Carol the new compliment of envy. A famous musical-comedy star who until recently thought Carol was "too cute for words" now greets her with a frosty, feline smile. Carol loves every bit of it. The only real cloud still left on her horizon...
...stitches by imitating the teachers. At Aptos Junior High she got herself elected student-body secretary, and caused an uproar among her colleagues by delivering the minutes of each meeting in the precise accents and gestures of the earlier speakers. Her size and her perpetual playacting led most of Carol's schoolmates to think of her as a big, good-natured clown, and Carol played up to the part. But at home, hoping to please Mrs. Channing, Carol did her best to act a dainty, cuddly blonde. Years later, when she was first approached for the part of cuddly...
...cluttered backstage dressing room at the Ziegfeld Theater last week, Carol gazed moodily into a big mirror and solemnly pondered her features and her technique. The shelf before her had none of the average young actress's array of paints and creams. Carol dived deep into the recesses of an enormous scuffed leather purse, located a stick of drugstore lip rouge and smeared it generously on the tip of her nose. "I think about character a lot," she said gravely. "It's much more important than timing." She wiped the lipstick under her chin and made two bull...
...short while later, her unorthodox make-up perfectly accenting her expressive features, Carol Channing took her place behind the footlights, her solemn technique rewarded by waves of laughter pouring in to her from a packed house. To anyone watching from the wings, it was obvious that the new star knew exactly what she was about...
What She Wants. Now atop the pinnacle for which she has yearned all her life, Carol Channing is thoroughly happy for perhaps the first time. Besides success, she also has a new husband, acquired after a whirlwind courtship in California. Alexander Carson is a big, good-natured bear of a man who spends his winters working as a private detective in New York and the football season playing center on Ottawa's professional team, the Rough Riders. The Murderous Ax, as he is known in his sporting circles, cares little about show business. He trails along patiently...