There was Miss Lois on the floor, having just performed a Sleeping Beauty-like faint during Tell a Story Time on "Romper Room." Innocent enough. But her skirt hiked up in the fall, exposing a patch of ...
But 50 years ago, Lois Whitmeyer notes, that flickering, black-and-white TV show was cutting-edge. And in a time when a Do-Bee meant something altogether different than today, Whitmeyer was one of a ...
The "Romper Room" hostess is mugged and left without her "magic mirror." "Romper Room" teacher Mary Anne King describes a mugging in California that left her without her iconic "magic mirror." ...
“Miss Mary Ann” King never stopped reminding people how special they are. Long after she left the children’s television show “Romper Room,” King continued to carry her Magic Mirror, a prop she peered ...
Miss Betty on "Romper Room" was a wildly popular TV host watched by legions of Twin Cities kids in the 1960s. Mary Betty Douglass of Minneapolis, the pretend teacher who would hold up her Magic Mirror ...
CHINO HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Mary Ann King, who peered through her “Magic Mirror” to host the children”s TV show “Romper Room” in Los Angeles, has died. She ...
Gloria Armstrong as Miss Gloria on KETV’s version of the children’s program “Romper Room.” She also appeared on Des Moines’ version. Kids who grew up in the ’60s might remember Miss Gloria reciting ...