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...Colorado Springs, Boston's pert Laurence Owen, 16, daughter of nine-time Champion Maribel Vinson Owen, twirled to victory at the national figure-skating championships to replace the retired Carol Heiss as the queen...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Paul Whiteman conducts Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on a show also featuring Roberta Peters, Carol Lawrence and Polly Bergen as hostess. Color...
...season's most small-scale and sprawling efforts are also its sprightliest-Show Girl, a zingy satirical revue in which Carol Channing takes on show business, and An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, a freewheeling and hilarious look at all the world...
Show Girl (music, lyrics and sketches by Charles Gaynor; additional sketches by Ernest Chambers) is mostly Carol Channing, a real win-place-and-show girl with any kind of luck and, even without it, still pleasant to watch. In a "small revue" that could scarcely be smaller-besides Carol, just Jules Munshin and a singing French foursome-versatile Actress Channing performs in three out of every four numbers, often shifting gear right on stage behind a screen. She is very much a show girl in how hard she works, very much more than one in how neatly she gets...
...praise on Broadway: she spoofs the sillier musicomedies of the '20s till every inanity glitters, and with a magic that in the very act of murdering old musicals can bring them back to life. Today's grim musical dramas are not as funny targets, nor has Carol as fine a touch for them, but her Switchblade Bess, at least, has inspired moments. If much of Show Girl rather smacks of family jokes, it is at any rate a well-known family-Marlene Dietrich, Sophie Tucker, Judy Garland-and full of family bluntness. And in Show Girl...