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Before eating, they would recite the celebrated Romper Room grace: "God is great; God is good. Let us thank Him for our food. Amen." 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.
Betty Thompson (1934–1994) was a Canadian television presenter who spent most of her career at CKCO-TV in Kitchener, Ontario.She was seen throughout Canada as host of CTV's version of Romper Room, a children's programme produced at CKCO's studios.
Perhaps you were remembering that L.A. Romper Room hostess Mary Ann King was mugged in a parking in December, 2003. She was 70 at the time, and sustained a broken arm, rib and punctured lung, plus the thieves stole a bag that contained the original Magic Mirror used on the Romper Room program.
It is the earliest known preschool series to be produced in the United States, predating Romper Room by a year. [2] The program was presented from a child's point of view. A 1953 magazine article reported, "Low-angled cameras see everything at Lilliputian eye-level, stories and activities are paced at the slow rate just right for small ears and ...
Claster Television, Inc. was a Baltimore, Maryland–based television distributor founded in 1953 by Bertram H. (Bert) Claster and Nancy Claster (Goldman) as Romper Room Inc. [2] It was originally a producer of the children's show Romper Room, one of the first preschool children's programs.
Frances Rappaport Horwich (born Frances Rappaport, July 16, 1907 – July 22, 2001) was an American educator, television personality and television executive. As Miss Frances, she was the host of the children's television program Ding Dong School, seen weekday mornings on the NBC network in the 1950s and nationally syndicated between 1959 and 1965.
I see in the article about Romper Room that Miss Nancy was the the lady in the San Francisco part. It stays 1953 to 1969. Romper Room lasted longer than that. I was on the show in 1970 and my brother in 1971. Both were filmed at KTVU studios in Oakland, Jack London Square CA. The Hostess was Miss Mary Ann. Why does the article not mention Miss ...
Her television career took off in the late 1970s when she began recording children's albums as a singer. She hosted the Puerto Rican version of Romper Room on WRIK-TV until the station closed temporarily. [3] She later moved to WKAQ-TV where she starred, produced, wrote and hosted alongside Lou Briel and Dagmar.