Word: trappe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name?" with at least one answer: "A $2,325,000 advance sale.'' The show itself, in accordance with Rodgers and Hammerstein's desire not to repeat themselves, goes to Austria at the time of the Anschluss for its story, to the famous Trapp Family Singers, who dramatically escaped from the Nazis' clutches. Besides Captain Georg von Trapp, there were his seven children and their governess, a young novice from a neighboring abbey, who taught the children to sing, won their love, and married their father. As musicomedy, The Sound of Music combines the cloister...
...result, a good deal of rewarding detail blurs into a June-moon landscape, an all-church-bells-and-wedding-bells kind of world. In spite of a triangular love story, there is not one tantrum; in spite of seven Trapp children, not one brat. Surely even an unexceptionable family show can be more fun: The Sound of Music ends by making its warmheartedness as cloying as a lollipop, as trying as a lisp...
...tryout towns from San Francisco to Boston, new shows were primping, polishing and rehearsing last week for Broadway. Whatever their merits, none seemed more certain to turn into a hot ticket than the new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. A sentimental evening with the famous Trapp family of singers, the show tells the story of Maria Rainer (Mary Martin), the young postulant from an Austrian convent, whose love for a widower, Captain Georg von Trapp (Theodore Bikel), and his seven children displaces her desire to become a nun. As one theatergoer summed it up: "Nellie Forbush...
...Vatican announced that Giuseppe Sarto, who as Pius X was Pope from 1903 to 1914, will be canonized next May the 78th Pope to achieve sainthood, and the first since 1712.* ¶The Rev. Hubert Thornton Trapp, vicar of London's Anglican Church of St. Mary. Magdalene, challenged the Archbishop of Canterbury to "come out into the open" about Freemasonry. Declaring in his parish magazine that "the Christians' God and the Masons' God are not one and the same . . . the two loyalties are in conflict," he announced that he would bar any clergyman...
Home Place. In Salem, Ore., released after serving a term for auto theft, Joseph Trapp was arrested as he drove by the state prison "to see what the pen looks like from the outside," admitted that he had stolen the car, explained: "I would have been arrested for vagrancy anyhow...