Word: caroll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week, with her show not yet a month old, Carol Channing's sudden fame was making itself felt in every tributary alley along the main stem. Newspaper columnists and Sunday feature writers were peppering their columns with "items," and plaguing the new celebrity with requests for interviews at the rate of three a day. Anita Loos was planning a new show for her, and so was Joshua Logan. There were plans afoot to star her in a radio program and a television show. There were offers from Hollywood and blueprints for a Blondes comic strip and a Lorelei...
From that point on, the joke is obvious. Here is no seal clumsily tooting a trumpet and waving a flag in a sawdust ring, but a seal suddenly released into a tank of water -lithe, graceful, confident and effortless. Subtly and with never a false move, Carol's whole expressive body flows with the rhythm of the music. As she sings, every motive in Lorelei's predacious little soul becomes hilariously clear. At the end of her first chorus, both Carol and Lorelei Lee belong to the audience forever. What Author Loos wrote between the lines and accented...
Fabulous Creation. "Happy days are here again," cried the New York Times's scholarly Brooks Atkinson after Carol's Broadway premiére. "Let us call her portrait of the aureate Lee the most fabulous comic creation of this dreary period in history." "Carol Channing," trilled the Herald Tribune's often harsh-voiced Howard Barnes, "serves notice that she has few peers among musical-comedy actresses." Even before these rhadamanthine judgments were pronounced, Carol's out-of-town notices had set the box office of Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater humming with the biggest advance seat...
Cuddly Blonde. For 28-year-old Carol Elaine Channing, the leveling process had taken time. Broadway's newest star, born in Seattle in 1921, was stage-struck early. Before she could talk, her mother insists, she was mimicking family friends who peered into her pink-beribboned crib. From the time she was taken to a play at the age of six, Carol knew what she wanted to be. When other little girls talked glibly of their plans to become "great actresses" or "great dancers" some day, Carol would fall silent; her own ambition was too important to talk about...
...reporter who came back from World War I to work in the Christian Science Church. It was a principle of George Channing's religion to help every individual to realize his own individuality, but in the case of his daughter, that was easier said than done. Everywhere Carol went she seemed more interested in other people's individualities...