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Why not? In an era of Hollywood fixation with sex and violence, Sound of Music-like two other big hits, My Fair Lady and Mary Poppins-is refreshingly tuneful, colorful and cheerful. Exquisitely filmed in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria, it celebrates the real-life courage of the Trapp Family...
And then there is the sparkling presence of Julie Andrews. These days Julie has considerably more than Sound of Music to feel bright about. Her Mary Poppins, now more than a year old, led Variety's list of top-grossing pictures of 1965 with $28.5 million. The Sound of...
P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins, will be at home to members of the University at 8 p.m. tomorrow night in Whitman Hall, instead of tonight.
P.L. Travers (Mary Poppins) will be at home to the University every Thursday evening from 8 to 10 p.m., Whitman Hall, 90 Walker St., beginning this week.
Her commitment is not to children but to childhood. "Mary Poppins was not written for children," she has said. "It is my experience that no book that children like is ever for children." Her commitment to childhood reveals itself in her devotion to fable and legends, to the elemental thought...