Word: carolled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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...
Christmas Eve at Washington Cathedral (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Protestant Episcopal carol and candlelight service...
...Christmas Carol (Sir Ralph Richardson; Caedmon). Dickens conceivably wrote the first Christmas sermon against the commercial spirit. As Scrooge, the "man of worldly mind," Sir Ralph is delectably mean and deliciously remorseful. He almost banishes that spirit of Christmas past, Lionel Barrymore...