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Mary Poppins. It is jolly old London, 1910, and one proper English family is all adither over the servant problem. Having put a whole series of nannies to rout, the two Banks youngsters compose a want ad listing desirable qualifications: cheery disposition, rosy cheeks, plays games. Father tears it up...
They will, indeed. For Julie Andrews, bypassed by Hollywood for My Fair Lady, proves in this musical fantasy that she is a girl to conjure with. As the redoubtable Mary Poppins, who declares herself "practically perfect in every way," Julie slides up banisters, arranges all sorts of tidy miracles, and...
To make a good show better, Disney employs all the vast magicmaking machinery at his command. The sets are luxuriant, the songs lilting, the scenario witty but impeccably sentimental, and the supporting cast only a pinfeather short of perfection. Protean Dick Van Dyke is uneasy with his accent but nonetheless...
In Mary Poppins in the Park, the century's most famous nurse-governess returns to the scene. The accent is on the word "governess," for the basic fact about Mary Poppins is that she is a Tower of Strength, a Rock of Gibraltar, a Fort Knox whose secret bullion...
The shadow in question is that which is thrown by the lively imagination and which, when lost, reduces human beings to mere mounds of flesh. All the characters in Mary Poppins in the Park are rich in substance and shadow.