![]() Long after she left the children’s television show “Romper Room,” King continued to carry her Magic Mirror, a prop she peered through to list the names of the special viewers at home. Nancy Claster, who will forever remain Miss Nancy in the hearts and minds of her loyal fans as television’s original “Romper Room” teacher, died yesterday morning of cancer at her Harper House condominium in Cross Keys. The show used the then-popular Mattel Jack-in-the-box for its opening and closing titles, with its “Pop Goes the Weasel” theme song. Mary Ann King, who peered through her “Magic Mirror” to host the children’s TV show “Romper Room” in Los Angeles, has died. What was the name of the Romper Room lady? The hostess and the children would chant, “Romper stomper bomper boo. Although she called it a magic mirror, it was really just the frame of a hand-help vanity mirror, with no glass inside. The hostess of Romper Room brought out a magic mirror at the end of each show. I hope you will find me just as interesting as I do you! Hop aboard for the ride.At the end of each broadcast, the hostess would look through a “magic mirror”-actually an open frame with a handle, the size, and shape of a hand mirror-and recite the rhyme, “Romper, bomper, stomper boo. So here I am, wanting to read about you and at the same time bringing you along with me to mine. My youngest is the lead singer/songwriter of the Grammy nominated band, Tonic, Emerson Hart. I am married and have three grown children who are interested in breeding horses, flying and creating. The only order to it is life itself as lived. I muse about my life and thoughts and just about everything under the sun. I am now over 50 and have the freedom to get back to expressing myself through writing. ![]() First as a Romper Room Teacher, then in television series and movies where writing took a backstage place in my life. Welcome to my world! I have always loved to write, but I have spent most of my adult life in front of either a television or film camera. She lives in New Jersey and South Beach with her husband and is “Nana” to four fantastic grandchildren.) Sandra of the children’s television program Romper Room and is a working actress, award-winning author of “Behind The Magic Mirror” and “Places Within My Heart”and is a motivational speaker and blogger. I see YOU!”Įxcerpt from Read Between My Lines by Sandra Hart © I’ve been looking for you all these years. Magic Mirror, tell me today did all my friends have fun at play? I see Michelle and John and Bill and…oh, there you are. So if you are reading this and I didn’t say your name, please forgive me. When I explain to them that I tried my very best to name each and every one I could in the short time allotted at the end of the show to ‘see’ all of my Do Bees, but because of the volumes of mail I received each day, I couldn’t acknowledge as many as I would have liked, they pretend to understand, but they are still not satisfied. Some of these wonderful men and women I have met at my son’s concerts, either thank me, or admonish me for not saying their name in my Magic Mirror. Since then I have been forced to account for my sins. I was dragged from underneath the rock I had been hiding since the 70’s. When the Januissue of Rolling Stone revealed to the world that my son, Emerson Hart, lead vocalist and songwriter of the band Tonic, had a mother who was the Romper Room lady, I could no longer hide in anonymity. “Why didn’t you say my name in your Magic Mirror?” But they all have the Big Question for me when I am lucky enough to meet one of them. writers, rock stars and CEO’s of corporations. The are now the bankers, brokers, directors. Those who grew up in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s are today’s power brokers of influence. It seems as though in the last few years all those terribly terrific children who grew up with us on Romper Room are now ruling the world and moving and shaking in all-important circles of life. ![]() Never realized there were so many Romper Room fans out there!) ![]() Don’t know where they got the picture, but that posting reminded me of an article I wrote several years ago for an Internet magazine that has been reprinted over 5 thousand times. The Do You Remember site posted a picture of me while doing a Romper Room Show back in the 70’s. To add to this resurgence of Romper Room thought, last week on my Facebook feed there I was with 176, 602 thousand likes and growing by the minute. At the time I had no idea the impact the TV show Romper Room would have on the 60’s and 70’s children. At the end of my visit he looked at me and smiled, “When you looked into that Magic Mirror and said my name, bet you didn’t know you were making your doctor happy!” Honestly he was right. (Yesterday I went for my annual checkup with my primary physician.
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