Von Trapp

Mention the von Trapp family, and most people think of "The Sound of Music," the 1965 movie based loosely on the real-life Austrian family that sang its way to freedom during Hitler's rise to power. But it is their painting, not their singing, that is drawing attention to the von Trapps today.And Harford countians will get a chance to see it firsthand Saturday when Agathe and Maria von Trapp, two of the seven children who learned to sing from their governess-turned-stepmother, bring their paintings to Bel Air for benefit exhibit.

LITTLE KIDS are lucky. They can see as well as hear her joyous "I'm Flying" in the videotape of "Peter Pan." But we older kids know what they don't, that Mary Martin had a life in the theater before she played the boy who never grew up.And darn! don't we wish we could watch her again in "One Touch of Venus," as she tells the world "That's Him." Or reminding us, in "Lute Song," to "Speak low -- When you speak love." Above all, wouldn't it be swell to see her wash that man right out of her hair?