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CAROL HANEY, opposite, dances with an effect that is insanely flrtatious and simulataneously funny in the musical comedy The Pajama Game. Wearing a man's suit and an oversize bowler, which she trick-flips, she reveals in her biggest hit song, "Steam Heat", an amiable face with tilted eyes and a soup-bowl haircut. By some quirk of fate and Haney (whose quirks are mostly sinuous), this all appears enchanting. In the ten years before she reached Broadway, she worked in a golf-ball factory, danced for ladies' clubs, got a job with the Jack Cole dancers, preceding Gwen Verdon, the red-haired delight of Can- Can, as Cole's partner, and then became Gene Kelly's aid, helping with An American In Paris, Singin' in the Rain, and Brigadoon. In her deliciously fatigued voice, she said: "I did everything."