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The movie sound track is so wholesome and inspirational that it makes even Mary Poppins, its rival bestseller sound racy. The children, the nuns, and of course Julie Andrews sing Richard Rodgers and late Oscar Hammerstein's last joint score like angels as they extol steeple bells cuckoo clocks...
Any parent who doesn't live in a cork-lined room has probably heard Mary Poppins (Buena Vista) by now, and probably feels that Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disneyland), Alice in Wonderland (Disneyland) and Peter and the Wolf (Columbia) are members of the family.
Those Galloways, as depicted by Walt Disney's elfin helpers, demonstrate conclusively that not every rural New England community is a Peyton Place. These Galloways are wholesome folks, and their struggles to provide a sanctuary for migratory geese make the high-flying fancies of Disney's Mary Poppins...
The big news, of course, was My Fair Lady. As predicted, M.F.L. proved the multilateral force of the evening, collected nine Oscars, including best picture and best direction. But what really made the race interesting was Producer Jack Warner's changed love, or how he decided to stop worrying...
At the end of the third book, in fact, the "practically-perfect-in-every-way" nanny announced that she wouldn't be returning. At that time, a small boy wrote to Miss Travers, "Nadum, I've just read the third Mary Poppins, you're awful . . . Madum, you shouldn't have...