Previous posts for January 26th are here: Alice Babs (2020), Maria von Trapp (2021), Stéphane Grappelli; Jimmy Van Heusen (2022), and Emanuel Aloys Förster; Jimmy Van Heusen (2023)
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Maria von Trapp (26 January 1905 – 28 March 1987) was the matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers.
She Had Confidence
The family had very little input in either the play or the movie The Sound of Music. While Maria was grateful that there wasn't any extreme revision of the story she wrote in The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, and that she herself was represented fairly accurately, she wasn't pleased with the portrayal of her husband. -- adapted from Joan Gearin,"Movie vs. Reality: The Real Story of the Von Trapp Family" at www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps-html
Maria Augusta von Trapp
Acquiesced to the sizeable gap
‘Twixt the literal truth
Of her Austrian youth,
And a Hollywood musical's sap.
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