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...CAROL SELSBERG...
Twenty-five years ago, Carol Channing first enchanted Broadway as Lorelei Lee, the platinum-haired, platinum-headed blonde who gave the world the Little Rock wisdom that diamonds are a girl's best friend. That was in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the musical hit that made her an instant star. It may be too late to revive that show, which never laughed quite hard enough at itself, but Lorelei is a particularly tawdry retread. Jule Styne has added a few routine songs; and the book, originally by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields, has been updated by Kenny Solms and Gail...
Needless to say, Channing, who is now 51 , looks much too old for the part. A young Lorelei seems naive, but a seasoned one is merely brazen. Instead of throwing herself into the proceedings, Carol seems to expend her energy with utmost calculation. Apart from a couple of production numbers, she remains almost stationary and is offstage altogether for the strenuous tap-dance sequences. Even her vocal tricks - going from bass through squeak in breathtaking spoken roulades - now sound like a ventriloquist...
...there's life in the old girl yet" being in my recollection her favorite) on the newspaper's typewriter but being a cockroach was too weak to press down the shift key. no capitals, that meant. theater two is putting on a "back-alley opera for children which starred carol channing off-broadway," set in shinbone alley and starring cats and cockroaches and bugs and so on. opens saturday at 2:30 at theater two, 196 broadway...
...Cleveland Junior High School Teacher Jo Carol LaFleur was pregnant and due to give birth in late July. She wanted to finish out the school year, but school board officials forced her to begin an unpaid maternity leave in March because of a standing rule that pregnant women must leave work five months before the baby is due. Such rules are vestiges of a time when skittish school boards were determined to keep visibly pregnant teachers out of the sight of schoolchildren. Now the boards contend that the rules are necessary to protect the health of mother and child...