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QUEEN of the Soap Opera Elaine Carrington Says Her Audience Is Young, Female and College-Educated The Queen: 8,000,000 words. T HE Queen of the Soap Opera is a jaunty, gray-haired lady named Elaine Sterne Carrington, who earned that title by fashioning about eight million soapchip-selling words for radio serials during the last couple of decades. (Eight million words, our statistical department tells us, is equivalent to 100 average novels). As the most prolific of writers of these washboard weepers (Pepper Young’s Family, When a Girl Mar¬ ries, and Rosemary), Mrs. Carrington has done a workmanlike job of tak¬ ing some average American house¬ holds and untidying them a bit with a series of crises. Now the grand lady of the much- tnaligned soaper has invaded TV with a morning serial called Follow Your Heart, which is shaping up as a pretty heart-rending, poor boy-rich girl af¬ fair that’s already got its full quota of grief. “You can’t keep a taut ship in this business,” says Mrs. Carring¬ ton. “You gotta have something dreadful hopping all the time.” If there is one person hopping all the time, it’s Mrs. Carrington. A widow and mother of two grown chil¬ dren (Patricia, 27 and Robert, 22), she somehow divides her time turn¬ ing out crises for her four current soapers; dabbling in photography; Director Norman Morgan rehearsing, left to right, Peter Davis (Grant Richards), Mr. Fielding (John Seymour), and Julia Fielding (Sallie Brophy) for a torrent of trouble.