“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 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 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 ...

Like most preschool or elementary school teachers, she brought joy, a love of learning, kindling wonder, and imagination in the lives of her students, some of them in Vacaville in later years. But to ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — Long before Miss Rachel, Barney, or even Sesame Street, KTBS brought the magic of children’s programming to local viewers with a show called Romper Room. Airing in the late 1950s and ...

“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When “Miss Barbara” picked up the Magic Mirror, her little friends at home so desperately wanted to hear their names. “Romper, ...

FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina-- By today's computer-generated, HD-animated standards, "Romper Room" seems pretty tame stuff for kids. Just a show with a cute hostess, puppets and parades, and a "magic ...

Jean Durkee was a schoolteacher, and happily so, in the late 1950s when her mother saw a newspaper advertisement for a host of a children’s TV show and suggested she apply. “You’ve got to be kidding ...

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 ...