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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...
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...
...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...