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title: L. Frank Baum

text: parodic by-laws. The group also included Will Rogers, but was proud to have had Baum as a member and posthumously revived many of his works despite their ephemeral intent. Many of these play's titles are known, but only "The Uplift of Lucifer" is known to survive (it was published in a limited edition in the 1960s). Prior to that, his last produced play was "The Tik-Tok Man of Oz" (based on "Ozma of Oz" and the basis for "Tik-Tok of Oz"), a modest success in Hollywood that producer Oliver Morosco decided did not do well enough to take to Broadway.

title: L. Frank Baum

text: been titled "The Wizard of Oz", rather than using the full, original title. In more recent years, restoring the full title has become increasingly common, particularly to distinguish the novel from the Hollywood film. Baum wrote a new Oz book, "The Marvelous Land of Oz", with a view to making it into a stage production, which was titled "The Woggle-Bug", but Montgomery and Stone balked at appearing when the original was still running. The Scarecrow and Tin Woodman were then omitted from this adaptation, which was seen as a self-rip-off by critics and proved to be a major flop before

title: L. Frank Baum bibliography

text: stars James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, and Michelle Williams. L. Frank Baum bibliography This is complete bibliography by American children's writer L. Frank Baum. This list omits those stories that appeared in "Our Landlady", "American Fairy Tales", "Animal Fairy Tales", "Little Wizard Stories of Oz", and "Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz". Baum has been credited as the editor of "In Other Lands Than Ours" (1907), a collection of letters written by his wife Maud Gage Baum. Michael Patrick Hearn has identified 42 titles of stage plays associated with Baum, including those listed here and on the

title: L. Frank Baum bibliography

text: L. Frank Baum bibliography This is complete bibliography by American children's writer L. Frank Baum. This list omits those stories that appeared in "Our Landlady", "American Fairy Tales", "Animal Fairy Tales", "Little Wizard Stories of Oz", and "Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz". Baum has been credited as the editor of "In Other Lands Than Ours" (1907), a collection of letters written by his wife Maud Gage Baum. Michael Patrick Hearn has identified 42 titles of stage plays associated with Baum, including those listed here and on the Oz books page, some probably redundant or reflective of alternate

title: L. Frank Baum

text: L. Frank Baum Baum was born in Chittenango, New York in 1856 into a devout Methodist family. He had German, Scots-Irish and English ancestry. He was the seventh of nine children of Cynthia Ann (née Stanton) and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood. "Lyman" was the name of his father's brother, but he always disliked it and preferred his middle name "Frank". His father succeeded in many businesses, including barrel-making, oil drilling in Pennsylvania, and real estate. Baum grew up on his parents' expansive estate called Rose Lawn, which he fondly recalled as a sort of

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text: films, "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" and "The Magic Cloak of Oz". Plays of L. Frank Baum The plays of L. Frank Baum are an important aspect of Baum's writing career about which some of the least is known. While even most brief biographies, long before the Internet, have noted Baum's work as a playwright, these works have been rarely performed beyond his lifetime, and almost none have been published aside from two scenarios and a first act of three unfinished works in "The Musical Fantasies of L. Frank Baum", compiled with an introduction by Alla T. Ford. Aside from

title: Plays of L. Frank Baum

text: Plays of L. Frank Baum The plays of L. Frank Baum are an important aspect of Baum's writing career about which some of the least is known. While even most brief biographies, long before the Internet, have noted Baum's work as a playwright, these works have been rarely performed beyond his lifetime, and almost none have been published aside from two scenarios and a first act of three unfinished works in "The Musical Fantasies of L. Frank Baum", compiled with an introduction by Alla T. Ford. Aside from his youthful success with "The Maid of Arran", his blockbuster eight-year run

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text: Baum not knowing what he is talking about. His biography, of L. Frank Baum, "To Please a Child" was written after being estranged from his mother, and contains numerous made up details. Benjamin Ward Baum, a barrel maker turned oil investor, originally did not want his son taking up acting under the family name, so he adopted the pseudonym of George Brooks. Eventually, Benjamin Baum bought a theatre in Richburg, New York, calling it Baum's Opera House, and relaxed the idea of one of his own performing in them, thinking it might well represent the interest of the company by

title: L. Frank Baum

text: members of the Theosophical Society in 1892. Baum's beliefs are often reflected in his writing. The only mention of a church in his Oz books is the porcelain one which the Cowardly Lion breaks in the Dainty China Country in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". The Baums sent their older sons to "Ethical Culture Sunday School" in Chicago, which taught morality, not religion. L. Frank Baum Baum was born in Chittenango, New York in 1856 into a devout Methodist family. He had German, Scots-Irish and English ancestry. He was the seventh of nine children of Cynthia Ann (née Stanton) and

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text: Richard Rosson appeared in one of the films, whose younger brother Harold Rosson photographed "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). After little success probing the unrealized children's film market, Baum acknowledged his authorship of "The Last Egyptian" and made a film of it (portions of which are included in "Decasia"), but the Oz name had become box office poison for the time being, and even a name change to Dramatic Feature Films and transfer of ownership to Frank Joslyn Baum did not help. Baum invested none of his own money in the venture, unlike "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays", but the stress

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text: was first published in Alla T. Ford's "The Musical Fantasies of L. Frank Baum" (1958), and has also been published online. This may or may not be related to the earlier Baum/Tietjens "King Midas" project. This work was described by Baum as an "opera" (although he seemed to use the terms "play," "musical," and "opera" interchangeably—existing recordings of the two singers are far removed from classical singing) with music by Arthur Pryor. It was to feature Montgomery and Stone in nine different roles apiece in nine different historical periods. No script or music has been found, but neither Baum nor

title: The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story

text: in the Dakota Territory, only to scrap that sentence in favor of Kansas. The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story is a 1990 made-for-television biographical film starring John Ritter as Lyman Frank Baum, the man who wrote "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and thirteen of the other Oz books. Also starring in this TV movie was Annette O'Toole as Baum's supportive wife, Maud, and Rue McClanahan as Baum's tough mother-in-law, Matilda Gage. John's son, Jason Ritter, makes his debut in this telefilm as Harry Neal Baum. At the time

text: The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story The Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story is a 1990 made-for-television biographical film starring John Ritter as Lyman Frank Baum, the man who wrote "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and thirteen of the other Oz books. Also starring in this TV movie was Annette O'Toole as Baum's supportive wife, Maud, and Rue McClanahan as Baum's tough mother-in-law, Matilda Gage. John's son, Jason Ritter, makes his debut in this telefilm as Harry Neal Baum. At the time of the film's debut, O'Toole and Ritter also starred in "It", a TV

title: Frank Joslyn Baum

text: about which L. Frank Baum wrote. "" credits Michael Patrick Hearn as a principal source. While Hearn collaborated with David Brooks on the original treatment, the final script by Richard Matheson primarily relied upon "To Please a Child". In the film, Frank Joslyn Baum (called "Frank, Jr." in the credits) was played by three actors, Joshua Boyd (age 3), Tim Eyster (ages 5–9), and Christopher Pettiet (teenage). Frank Joslyn Baum Frank Joslyn Baum (December 3, 1883 – December 2, 1958) was a lawyer, soldier, writer, and film producer, and the first president of The International Wizard of Oz Club. He

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text: acquired them after L. Frank Baum's bankruptcy, in this decision. After a long separation, Baum divorced his wife in 1921. Baum licensed the novel to I. E. Chadwick and Larry Semon, who created "Wizard of Oz" (1925). The film that was ultimately created bears the writing credit "L. Frank Baum, Jr., Leon Lee, and Larry Semon", with Lee also credited as title writer, though Frank J. may or may not have actually collaborated on the screenplay. The film bears almost no resemblance to the novel, but certainly seems to borrow on suggestions from "His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz". That

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text: lead. Sometimes these scripts are attributed to L. Frank, though this is not the case. Soon after the venture ended, Baum re-enlisted in the army and fought in World War I, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel. After the death of L. Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson was selected to continue the Oz series by publishers Reilly & Lee. Frank Joslyn Baum had some desire to continue the series himself, but he represented his mother, who had turned over the rights to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" to him once she had gotten them back from Harrison Rountree, who had

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text: matters only after Baum had died. Reilly and Lee had imposed a 1961 deadline, and the book that appeared is filled with Frank Joslyn Baum's mythologizing about his father, claiming so far as that L. Frank Baum had had a heart attack at age 12 and had marched in a torchlight parade in support of William Jennings Bryan's presidential candidacy, both of which were fabrications. Baum died from a heart attack on December 2, 1958. Frank Joslyn Baum is grandfather of Roger S. Baum, who similarly writes Oz books within a mythos that appears to be distinct from the one

text: miniseries where they played a couple. The film depicts how L. Frank Baum came to create "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" while undergoing and eventually overcoming professional and personal failures. The story is interspersed with the famous Oz story, shown at certain points when Baum is writing down his ideas. It is shown that Baum was originally telling this to a group of kids, who asked him the name of this location, to which he looks at a file cabinet with one drawer marked O-Z and decided "Oz". Another idea Baum had thought of was to say Dorothy was born

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text: scenarios that were published in Alla T. Ford's "The Musical Fantasies of L. Frank Baum" (1958), although no music appears to exist for them. These plays reflect an earthier, bawdier sensibility than Baum's other work, his novels for adults included, presumably due to Hough's influence. "Montezuma" or "The Son of the Sun", with music by Nathaniel D. Mann (some of which was actually composed), is based on an earlier spoken play by Hough that he brought to Baum to turn into a musical. It is based on the same play as "The King of Gee-Whiz", below. Both of these scripts

title: Frank Joslyn Baum

text: Frank Joslyn Baum Frank Joslyn Baum (December 3, 1883 – December 2, 1958) was a lawyer, soldier, writer, and film producer, and the first president of The International Wizard of Oz Club. He is best known as the author of "To Please a Child" (a biography of his father, L. Frank Baum) (1962) and "The Laughing Dragon of Oz" (1936). He was involved in the production of "Wizard of Oz" (1925), and "The Wizard of Oz" (1933), for which he also received writing credit, after which he sold "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" film rights to Samuel Goldwyn. His attempt

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text: bankrolling his son's acting career. Never much for his first name, Lyman Frank Baum, who had been known as "Frank" for most of his childhood, chose the new pen name "Louis F. Baum." Most of these plays are known only from their copyrights. "The Maid of Arran", based on a novel by William Black, went on a very successful tour with Baum in the lead. While most of Baum's later musical theatre works featured music by other composers, Baum himself composed the music for this piece, which is apparently the only musical of the group. "Matches", a drawing room comedy,

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text: "Return to Oz" (1985), "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz", "Tin Man" (a re-imagining of the story televised in late 2007 on the Sci Fi Channel), and a variety of animated productions. Today's most successful Broadway show "Wicked" provides a history to the two Oz witches used in the classic MGM film. Gregory Maguire, author of the novel "Wicked" on which the musical is based, chose to honor L. Frank Baum by naming his main character Elphaba—a phonetic play on Baum's initials. The film "Oz the Great and Powerful" (2013) pays homage to MGM's film "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) and

title: Frank Baum (footballer)

text: Frank Baum (footballer) Frank Baum (born 30 January 1956) is a retired German footballer, who played as a defender for several German football clubs and the East Germany national football team between 1963 and 1997. Baum spent his youth playing for BSG Aktivist Zwenkau and 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig. Between 1974 and 1979 Baum played for BSG Chemie Leipzig and by the 1978–79 season was a regular first-team player. On 28 February 1979 he gained his first cap for East Germany in a 1–0 loss to Bulgaria. The same year saw Baum transfer to city rivals Lokomotiv Leipzig, where he

title: L. Frank Baum

text: paradise. Rose Lawn was located in Mattydale, New York. Frank was a sickly, dreamy child, tutored at home with his siblings. From the age of 12, he spent two miserable years at Peekskill Military Academy but, after being severely disciplined for daydreaming, he had a possibly psychogenic heart attack and was allowed to return home. Baum started writing early in life, possibly prompted by his father buying him a cheap printing press. He had always been close to his younger brother Henry (Harry) Clay Baum, who helped in the production of "The Rose Lawn Home Journal". The brothers published several

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text: survives and was intended to be published as an appendix to "To Please a Child" (a Baum biography by Frank Joslyn Baum and Russell P. MacFall, known for being inaccurate), but was excluded due to copyright concerns, was "not good." The show's big song for the Scarecrow, which is included in both versions, is derived from an earlier Baum-Tietjens collaboration called "The Octopus; or The Title Trust" As with most plays subsequent to the Louis F. Baum period, Hearn marks these "unproduced and possibly never completed" because the existence of their manuscripts is unknown. Very little Baum material survives in

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text: that writers such as William K. Everson, Yuri Tsivian and others have claimed that early cinema projectionists had, due to the presence of the filmmakers in the room each night, it was a foray into the cinema that would pave the way for things to come. He also worked briefly for his father's publisher, Reilly & Britton, worked in advertising in Chicago. He was the first member of the Baum family to move to the Los Angeles area. When L. Frank Baum founded The Oz Film Manufacturing Company in 1914, Frank J. was established as the business director in the

title: L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker

text: L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker: Readings and Recitations in Prose and Verse, Humorous and Otherwise is an anthology of literary works by L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books. The book was first published in 1910, with illustrations by veteran Baum artists John R. Neill and Maginel Wright Enright; a subsequent 1912 edition was retitled Baum's Own Book for Children. The book constitutes a complex element in the Baum bibliography. Baum intended the anthology for schools, to be used in instruction in public speaking. The collection includes versions of previously published material from Baum's

title: Plays of L. Frank Baum

text: very loosely based on an element of Baum's novel, "The Enchanted Island of Yew", was first published under the second of these titles in "Entertaining". Under the title, "Prince Marvel", it was published in "L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker". "The Pipes O' Pan" is based on the Greek myth of King Midas judging a music contest between Apollo and Pan and preferring the latter. Baum wrote a first act that remains unpublished. A second version of the first act was written with George Scarborugh and was intended to feature music by Paul Tietjens, although subsequent acts were never completed. This

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text: theater as well as the only known copies of many of Baum's scripts, including "Matches", as well as costumes. In July 1888, Baum and his wife moved to Aberdeen, Dakota Territory where he opened a store called "Baum's Bazaar". His habit of giving out wares on credit led to the eventual bankrupting of the store, so Baum turned to editing the local newspaper "The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer" where he wrote the column "Our Landlady". Following the death of Sitting Bull at the hands of Indian agency police, Baum urged the wholesale extermination of all America's native peoples in a column

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text: Frederic Chapin was admired, but the play in full was derided as more of a knockoff than a sequel to "The Wizard of Oz", and it played only two cities, Chicago and Milwaukee, before it closed, without ever reaching Broadway. This play was a project upon which Baum wanted to embark after returning home from Egypt with his wife, Maud Gage Baum. Maud produced the memoir, "In Other Lands Than Ours" for which Frank provided photographs and an introduction, and Frank also wrote "The Boy Fortune Hunters in Egypt", but this project may never have gone past talk. This play,

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text: sympathy for the Indians via obnoxious argument, ostensibly promoting the contrary position. Baum's description of Kansas in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is based on his experiences in drought-ridden South Dakota. During much of this time, Matilda Joslyn Gage was living in the Baum household. While Baum was in South Dakota, he sang in a quartet which included James Kyle, who became one of the first Populist (People's Party) Senators in the U.S. Baum's newspaper failed in 1891, and he, Maud, and their four sons moved to the Humboldt Park section of Chicago, where Baum took a job reporting for

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text: Morosco, incidentally, quickly turned to film production, as did Baum. In 1914, Baum started his own film production company The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, which came as an outgrowth of the Uplifters. He served as its president and principal producer and screenwriter. The rest of the board consisted of Louis F. Gottschalk, Harry Marston Haldeman, and Clarence R. Rundel. The films were directed by J. Farrell MacDonald, with casts that included Violet MacMillan, Vivian Reed, Mildred Harris, Juanita Hansen, Pierre Couderc, Mai Welles, Louise Emmons, J. Charles Haydon, and early appearances by Harold Lloyd and Hal Roach. Silent film actor

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text: However, Baum ran into trouble and could not pay his debts to the company who produced the films. He did not get back to a stable financial situation for several years, after he sold the royalty rights to many of his earlier works, including "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". This resulted in the M.A. Donahue Company publishing cheap editions of his early works with advertising which purported that Baum's newer output was inferior to the less expensive books that they were releasing. Baum had shrewdly transferred most of his property into Maud's name, except for his clothing, his typewriter, and

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text: studio, Chadwick Pictures, and it did not get a wide release. A marriage to Rosine Agnes Shafer Brubeck lasted from July 29, 1932 to her death on September 2, 1934. In 1933, Baum, credited as "Col. Frank Baum" may also have written Ted Eshbaugh's animated short, "The Wizard of Oz", or he may simply have negotiated the license. Baum was undaunted, and claimed to have written a 1931 radio drama called "Tweety in Oz", though no script has ever been found, which he followed with a 1934 story, "Jimmy Bulber in Oz", which was printed in order to achieve a

title: Harry Neal Baum

text: Harry Neal Baum Harry Neal Baum (December 18, 1889 – June 7, 1967) was an American author and the third son of L. Frank Baum. His father dedicated his 1902 novel "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" to him. Baum, who received a Ph.D. in medieval history, wrote a number of history books for children. He worked in several advertising companies and ghostwrote the 1917 novel "Mary Louise Solves a Mystery" to satisfy his ill father's publishing obligations. Raised in Chicago, Baum was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, on December 18, 1889, to Maud Gage and L. Frank Baum.

title: Maud Gage Baum

text: Maud Gage Baum Maud Gage Baum (March 27, 1861 – March 6, 1953) was the wife of American children's publisher L. Frank Baum. Her mother was the suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. In her early life, she attended a boys' high school and was raised to be headstrong. Maud lived in Fayetteville, New York, with her aging parents until she married Frank in 1882, sacrificing her college education at Cornell University. At the onset of their marriage, she accompanied her husband's acting troupe throughout the United States. After she became pregnant, Maud and Frank settled down in a rented house, where

title: Harry Neal Baum

text: The third son of L. Frank Baum, the author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", he was named "Harry Neal Baum" to honor Harry Baum and Hattie and William Neal, L. Frank Baum's brother, sister, and brother-in-law, respectively. His brothers were Frank Joslyn, Robert Stanton, and Kenneth Gage. Baum received a Ph.D. in medieval history and wrote three history books for children and articles about his father. He coauthored with Olive Beaupre Miller the "Book of History", a 1929 four-volume work published by The Bookhouse for Children. He served as a vice president of Burson-Marsteller. He worked as an advertising

title: Frank Baum (footballer)

text: VfB Zwenkau. Baum became first-team player-coach at SV LVB Leipzig and also coached Kickers 94 Markkleeberg in 1995. Currently, he is coaching the men's first team of the Leipzig Transport Authority team in the Leipzig District League. Frank Baum (footballer) Frank Baum (born 30 January 1956) is a retired German footballer, who played as a defender for several German football clubs and the East Germany national football team between 1963 and 1997. Baum spent his youth playing for BSG Aktivist Zwenkau and 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig. Between 1974 and 1979 Baum played for BSG Chemie Leipzig and by the 1978–79

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text: contentious works is "The Whatnexters" (1903). Michael Patrick Hearn listed it under the plays in "The Annotated Wizard of Oz" (2000). Katharine M. Rogers takes this citation and suggests that this is "one of Baum's little jokes" and that the play never actually existed. In fact, Hearn's source is "The Story of the House of Witmark: From Ragtime to Swingtime", which refers to it as the "first chapter of an unfinished book" by Baum and Isidore Witmark. Rogers cites an article by Russel P. MacFall in the Winter 1982 issue of "The Baum Bugle" that exemplifies the estranged Frank Joslyn

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text: probably took its toll on his health. On May 5, 1919, Baum suffered a stroke. The following day he slipped into a coma but briefly awoke and spoke his last words to his wife, "Now we can cross the Shifting Sands." Frank died on May 6, 1919. He was buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. His final Oz book, "Glinda of Oz", was published on July 10, 1920, a year after his death. The Oz series was continued long after his death by other authors, notably Ruth Plumly Thompson, who wrote an additional twenty-one Oz books. Baum's avowed

title: Roger S. Baum

text: Roger S. Baum Roger Stanton Baum (born 1938) is a former banker and stockbroker, and currently (as of 2005) a children's author, residing in Las Vegas. Baum publishes under the name Roger S. Baum. Baum is a former resident of Los Angeles. He also tours the country, reading from and signing his children's books. Baum is a great-grandson of L. Frank Baum, the original creator of the "Oz" series, and grandson of Frank Joslyn Baum, who published "The Laughing Dragon of Oz" in 1935. Many of Roger S. Baum's children's books are set in the same world. Baum had written

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text: one day was found locked in a store room dead, probably from suicide. Baum could never stay away long from the stage. He performed in plays under the stage names of Louis F. Baum and George Brooks. In 1880, his father built him a theater in Richburg, New York, and Baum set about writing plays and gathering a company to act in them. "The Maid of Arran" proved a modest success, a melodrama with songs based on William Black's novel "A Princess of Thule". Baum wrote the play and composed songs for it (making it a prototypical musical, as its

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text: of Oz" and "Tik-Tok of Oz", both based on dramatizations, which Baum regarded warily until his readers accepted them. Sally Roesch Wagner of The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation has published a pamphlet titled "The Wonderful Mother of Oz" describing how Matilda Gage's feminist politics were sympathetically channeled by Baum into his Oz books. Much of the politics in the Republican "Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer" dealt with trying to convince the populace to vote for women's suffrage. Baum was the secretary of Aberdeen's Woman's Suffrage Club. Susan B. Anthony visited Aberdeen and stayed with the Baums. Nancy Tystad Koupal notes an apparent

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text: his library (mostly of children's books, such as the fairy tales of Andrew Lang, whose portrait he kept in his study)—all of which, he successfully argued, were essential to his occupation. Maud handled the finances anyway, and thus Baum lost much less than he could have. Baum made use of several pseudonyms for some of his other non-Oz books. They include: Baum also anonymously wrote "The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile". He continued theatrical work with Harry Marston Haldeman's men's social group The Uplifters, for which he wrote several plays for various celebrations. He also wrote the group's

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text: and its failure further strained his faltering relationship with Denslow. It was their last collaboration. Baum worked primarily with John R. Neill on his fantasy work beginning in 1904, but Baum met Neill few times (all before he moved to California) and often found Neill's art not humorous enough for his liking. He was particularly offended when Neill published "The Oz Toy Book: Cut-outs for the Kiddies" without authorization. Several times during the development of the Oz series, Baum declared that he had written his last Oz book and devoted himself to other works of fantasy fiction based in other

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text: copyright) published "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" to much critical acclaim and financial success. The book was the best-selling children's book for two years after its initial publication. Baum went on to write thirteen more novels based on the places and people of the Land of Oz. Two years after "Wizard" publication, Baum and Denslow teamed up with composer Paul Tietjens and director Julian Mitchell to produce a musical stage version of the book under Fred R. Hamlin. Baum and Tietjens had worked on a musical of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in 1901 and based closely upon the book,

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text: customers. He also had to work as a traveling salesman. In 1897, he wrote and published "Mother Goose in Prose", a collection of Mother Goose rhymes written as prose stories and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. "Mother Goose" was a moderate success and allowed Baum to quit his sales job (which had had a negative impact on his health). In 1899, Baum partnered with illustrator W.W. Denslow to publish "Father Goose, His Book", a collection of nonsense poetry. The book was a success, becoming the best-selling children's book of the year. In 1900, Baum and Denslow (with whom he shared the

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text: songs relate to the narrative), and acted in the leading role. His aunt Katharine Gray played his character's aunt. She was the founder of Syracuse Oratory School, and Baum advertised his services in her catalog to teach theater, including stage business, play writing, directing, translating (French, German, and Italian), revision, and operettas. On November 9, 1882, Baum married Maud Gage, a daughter of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a famous women's suffrage and feminist activist. While Baum was touring with "The Maid of Arran", the theater in Richburg caught fire during a production of Baum's ironically titled parlor drama "Matches", destroying the

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text: A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing, and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs". Baum had a flair for being the spotlight of fun in the household, including during times of financial difficulties. His selling of fireworks made the Fourth of July memorable. His skyrockets, Roman candles, and fireworks filled the sky, while many people around the neighborhood would gather in front of the house to watch the displays. Christmas was even more festive. Baum dressed as Santa Claus for the family. His father would place the Christmas tree behind a curtain in the front parlor so that Baum

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text: issues of the journal, including advertisements from local businesses, which they would give to family and friends for free. By the age of 17, Baum established a second amateur journal called "The Stamp Collector", printed an 11-page pamphlet called "Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers' Directory", and started a stamp dealership with friends. At 20, Baum took on the national craze of breeding fancy poultry. He specialized in raising the Hamburg. In March 1880, he established a monthly trade journal, "The Poultry Record", and in 1886, when Baum was 30 years old, his first book was published: "The Book of the Hamburgs:

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text: until his death. He had been friendly with the founding members, who were unaware of his family conflicts. He had been working in near-isolation on a biography of his father, eventually titled "To Please a Child", derived from an inscription L. Frank Baum wrote in his sister Mary Louise's copy of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", after a suggestion by Fred M. Meyer, the club secretary. His brother Robert was the only member of his family to provide any information. Russell P. MacFall became his collaborator, but he had difficulty speaking with Baum's family. They were willing to discuss family

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text: to trademark the Oz name distanced him from the rest of his family. In addition, "To Please a Child" has been suspect since before it was published, as most of his family refused to confirm any details about his father's life, leading Baum to fabricate some details. Baum was born December 3, 1883 to Lyman Frank Baum and Maud Gage Baum, their first son, who was known in the household by the nickname "Bunny". Like his brothers, Robert Stanton, Harry Neal, and Kenneth Gage, he attended the Society for Ethical Culture Sunday school, which taught morality without religion, as the

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text: interpretation of the novel as an extended political allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s. Special attention was paid to the Populist metaphors and debates over silver and gold. Baum was a Republican and avid supporter of Women's Suffrage, and it is thought that he did not support the political ideals of either the Populist movement of 1890–92 or the Bryanite-silver crusade of 1896–1900. He published a poem in support of William McKinley. Since 1964, many scholars, economists, and historians have expanded on Littlefield's interpretation, pointing to multiple similarities between the characters (especially as depicted in Denslow's illustrations)

title: L. Frank Baum

text: children's stories, although he did not do a great deal more than eliminate harsh moral lessons. Another traditional element that Baum intentionally omitted was the emphasis on romance. He considered romantic love to be uninteresting for young children, as well as largely incomprehensible. In "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", the only element of romance lay in the background of the Tin Woodman and his love for Nimmie Amee, which explains his condition and does not otherwise affect the tale, and that of Gayelette and the enchantment of the Winged monkeys. The only other stories with such elements were "The Scarecrow

title: L. Frank Baum

text: it could reach Broadway. He also worked for years on a musical version of "Ozma of Oz", which eventually became "The Tik-Tok Man Of Oz". This did fairly well in Los Angeles, but not well enough to convince producer Oliver Morosco to mount a production in New York. He also began a stage version of "The Patchwork Girl of Oz", but this was ultimately realized as a film". With the success of "Wizard" on page and stage, Baum and Denslow hoped for further success and published "Dot and Tot of Merryland" in 1901. The book was one of Baum's weakest,

title: Maud Gage Baum

text: home in Fayetteville, New York. Baum scholar Evan I. Schwartz wrote that Maud had "dark hair, a shapely figure, and eyes as sharp as her mind". In her youth, Maud went to a boys' high school. Both she and her future husband, L. Frank Baum, attended Syracuse Classical School, a preparatory school in Syracuse, New York. In September 1880, Maud headed to Cornell University, leaving on a train and arriving at an Ithaca depot two hours later. Her brother, Clarkson, had graduated as one of the top of the class, though her elder sisters did not attend a university. When

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text: of political references is included in the 1902 stage version, such as references by name to the President, to a powerful senator, and to John D. Rockefeller for providing the oil needed by the Tin Woodman. Scholars have found few political references in Baum's Oz books after 1902. Baum himself was asked whether his stories had hidden meanings, but he always replied that they were written to "please children". Baum was originally a Methodist, but he joined the Episcopal Church in Aberdeen to participate in community theatricals. Later, he and his wife were encouraged by Matilda Joslyn Gage to become

title: L. Frank Baum

text: killing of the Lakota Sioux holy man, Sitting Bull (who was being held in custody at the time). Following is the complete text of the editorial: Baum wrote a second editorial following the December 29, 1890 massacre and published on January 3, 1891: These two short editorials continue to haunt his legacy. In 2006, two descendants of Baum apologized to the Sioux nation for any hurt that their ancestor had caused. The short story "The Enchanted Buffalo" claims to be a legend of a tribe of bison, and states that a key element made it into legends of Native American

title: L. Frank Baum

text: masculine activities, including the "Aunt Jane's Nieces", "The Flying Girl" and its sequel, and his girl sleuth Josie O'Gorman from The Bluebird Books. During the period surrounding the 1890 Ghost Dance movement and Wounded Knee Massacre, Baum wrote two editorials about Native Americans for the "Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer" which have provoked controversy in recent times because of his assertion that the safety of White settlers depended on the wholesale genocide of American Indians. Sociologist Robert Venables has argued that Baum was not using sarcasm in the editorials. The first piece was published on December 20, 1890, five days after the

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text: evidence that he purchased such an island, and no one has ever been able to find any island whose name even resembles Pedloe in that area. Nevertheless, Baum stated to the press that he had discovered a Pedloe Island off the coast of California and that he had purchased it to be "the Marvelous Land of Oz," intending it to be "a fairy paradise for children." Eleven year old Dorothy Talbot of San Francisco was reported to be ascendant to the throne on March 1, 1906, when the Palace of Oz was expected to be completed. Baum planned to live

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text: could talk to everyone while he decorated the tree without people managing to see him. He maintained this tradition all his life. Baum embarked on his lifetime infatuation—and wavering financial success—with the theater. A local theatrical company duped him into replenishing their stock of costumes on the promise of leading roles coming his way. Disillusioned, Baum left the theater — temporarily — and went to work as a clerk in his brother-in-law's dry goods company in Syracuse. This experience may have influenced his story "The Suicide of Kiaros", first published in the literary journal "The White Elephant". A fellow clerk

title: Maud Gage Baum

text: class politics, but have left politics to the more experienced sex." The abuse she suffered at Cornell emotionally scarred her, possibly coloring her view of Cornell men and revealing to her the taxing nature of a woman's forging her way through a world dominated by men. While she was studying English and American literature at Cornell University, Maud first met her future husband L. Frank Baum at 678 W. Onondaga St., the house of his sister Harriet Baum Neal, and her husband, William Neal. Her roommate, Josie Baum, was Frank's cousin and urged her to meet Frank. During an 1881

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text: on the island, with administrative duties handled by the princess and her all-child advisers. Plans included statues of the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, Jack Pumpkinhead, and H.M. Woggle-Bug, T.E. Baum abandoned his Oz park project after the failure of "The Woggle-Bug", which was playing at the Garrick Theatre in 1905. Because of his lifelong love of theatre, he financed elaborate musicals, often to his financial detriment. One of Baum's worst financial endeavors was his "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays" (1908), which combined a slideshow, film, and live actors with a lecture by Baum as if he were giving a travelogue to Oz.

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text: Stories of Oz" in 1913–14, as a way of reaching beginning readers. The six "Snuggle Tales" books are: In turn, "The Snuggle Tales" were later republished with added color plates as the "Oz-Man Tales", issued in 1920. To illustrate the type of materials involved, consider the contents of the fourth "Snuggle Tales" volume, "The Magic Cloak and Other Stories": L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker: Readings and Recitations in Prose and Verse, Humorous and Otherwise is an anthology of literary works by L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books. The book was first published in

title: Harry Neal Baum

text: of Women. Baum retired to Bass Lake, Indiana, at which he managed the Wizard of Oz lodge. Upon his death, on June 7, 1967, he was survived by his wife, Brenda. He was also survived by sons Richard and Henry and daughters Ann and Judith, as well as 11 grandchildren. Harry Neal Baum Harry Neal Baum (December 18, 1889 – June 7, 1967) was an American author and the third son of L. Frank Baum. His father dedicated his 1902 novel "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" to him. Baum, who received a Ph.D. in medieval history, wrote a

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text: Pryor scholars have put forth the opinion as to the work never having existed. This was later adapted for radio by Frank Joslyn Baum. In spite of the title, the story is unrelated to the Land of Oz. Little is known of tis work save the title. Based on the eponymous short story from "Animal Fairy Tales". These plays were written in collaboration with composer Louis F. Gottschalk. "The Tik-Tok Man of Oz" was the only one produced, after being worked through several collaborations with Manuel Klein under the titles, "Ozma of Oz" (it was loosely based on that novel)

title: The Baum Bugle

text: rare photographs and illustrations, and similar materials. Among the range of articles and fiction published in "The Baum Bugle": The Baum Bugle The Baum Bugle: A Journal of Oz is the official journal of The International Wizard of Oz Club. The journal was founded in 1957, with its first issue released in June of that year (to a subscribers' list of sixteen). It publishes three times per year, with issues dated Spring, Autumn, and Winter; Issue No. 1 of Volume 50 appeared in the Spring of 2006. The journal publishes both scholarly and popular articles on L. Frank Baum, the

title: The Baum Bugle

text: The Baum Bugle The Baum Bugle: A Journal of Oz is the official journal of The International Wizard of Oz Club. The journal was founded in 1957, with its first issue released in June of that year (to a subscribers' list of sixteen). It publishes three times per year, with issues dated Spring, Autumn, and Winter; Issue No. 1 of Volume 50 appeared in the Spring of 2006. The journal publishes both scholarly and popular articles on L. Frank Baum, the Oz books written by Baum and other writers, and related subjects, plus reviews of Oz-related films and theater productions,

title: Dwight James Baum

text: plan, the Hendricks Chapel, designed with John Russell Pope), and the pedestal for V. Renzo Baldi's statue of Columbus in the city's Columbus Circle. Baum was distantly related to author and designer L. Frank Baum. A number of his works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Baum's work includes the following: Dwight James Baum Dwight James Baum (1886–1939) was an American architect most active in New York and in Sarasota, Florida. His work includes Cà d'Zan, the Sarasota Times Building (1925), Sarasota County Courthouse (1926), early residences in Temple Terrace, Florida, Sarasota County Courthouse (1927), Pinecroft, West

title: Maud Gage Baum

text: for the rest of her life. Surviving her husband by 34 years, Maud died at Ozcot on the night of March 6, 1953, 21 days shy of her 92nd birthday. Her funeral service was handled by Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. At her death, Maud was survived by her four sons, nieces Leslie and Matilda Gage, and several grandchildren. Maud Gage Baum Maud Gage Baum (March 27, 1861 – March 6, 1953) was the wife of American children's publisher L. Frank Baum. Her mother was the suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage. In her early life, she attended a boys' high school

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text: the Baums did. Baum married Margaret Elizabeth Ligon Turner on August 19, 1940. After Maud died in 1953, he was admitted back into The Baum Trust, but he had gained only the tolerance, and not the faith of his family. From time to time he would write articles about his father's work, the most notable being "The Oz Film Co.", which appeared in the August–September 1956 "Films in Review", which appeared when the films had been generally forgotten. When Justin G. Schiller founded the International Wizard of Oz Club, Baum was appointed its first president, and served in that position

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text: trademark on the name "Oz" (it would later be reprinted in the International Wizard of Oz Club's "Oziana"). He demanded that Reilly & Lee cease and desist publishing Oz books. Maud, who was the one who made the agreement with the publishers, had to sue him to get the trademark back, and she took Frank J. out of her will. Finally, as "Frank Baum", he produced a two-part manuscript called "Rosine and the Laughing Dragon" that was broken into "The Laughing Dragon of Oz" and "The Enchanted Princess of Oz". He barely mentioned Oz in the text, and no Oz

title: Harry Neal Baum

text: manager at Fairbanks-Morse before being employed at Gebhardt & Brockson, a Chicago-based advertising company. L. Frank Baum dedicated his 1902 novel "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" to Harry. Because of L. Frank Baum's deteriorating health in 1917, he was unable to fulfill his obligations to his publishers. Therefore, Harry ghostwrote the 1917 novel "Mary Louise Solves a Mystery", which was part of "The Bluebird Books" series, mimicking his father's style. In 1944, Harry starred as President Woodrow Wilson in the play "The Time to Come" produced by the Little Theater of Western Springs. He stated that he considered

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text: the same spoken play, the script was turned over to Elizabeth Marbury and is now held in a private collection, although, unlike "Montezuma", the scenario has been published. Baum worked with Edith Ogden Harrison on developing her children's book, "Prince Silverwings" into a musical extravaganza. The project went off and on, and Baum composed a song for it called "Down Among the Marshes," but the project eventually fell apart. The scenario and general synopsis was eventually published in 1981. A completed draft of the script exists, but remains unpublished. "Father Goose" was another intended collaboration with Paul Tietjens. It is

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text: and microfiche copies of it, which can be found in many larger and academic libraries, and a selection of six of the eight songs published for consumer use survives and was reprinted in two parts in "The Baum Bugle" using a copy found at the University of Minnesota by Scott Andrew Hutchins and Ruth Berman, both of whom received credit. After the success of Baum's collection of children's poetry, "Father Goose, His Book" in 1898 and youth novel, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", in 1900, Baum began collaborating on a series of musicals with composer Paul Tietjens. W.W. Denslow, illustrator

title: L. Frank Baum

text: and stock figures from editorial cartoons of the period. Littlefield himself wrote to "The New York Times" letters to the editor section spelling out that his theory had no basis in fact, but that his original point was "not to label Baum, or to lessen any of his magic, but rather, as a history teacher at Mount Vernon High School, to invest turn-of-the-century America with the imagery and wonder I have always found in his stories." Baum's newspaper had addressed politics in the 1890s, and Denslow was an editorial cartoonist as well as an illustrator of children's books. A series

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text: Mexican present himself as an exception to counter Anglo stereotypes of Mexican laziness. Baum's mother-in-law and Woman's Suffrage leader Matilda Joslyn Gage had great influence over Baum's views. Gage was initiated into the Wolf Clan and admitted into the Iroquois Council of Matrons for her outspoken respect and sympathy for Native American people; it would seem unlikely that Baum could have harbored animosity for them in his mature years. Numerous political references to the "Wizard" appeared early in the 20th century. Henry Littlefield, an upstate New York high school history teacher, wrote a scholarly article which was the first full-fledged

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text: magical lands, including "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" and "Queen Zixi of Ix". However, he returned to the series each time, persuaded by popular demand, letters from children, and the failure of his new books. Even so, his other works remained very popular after his death, with "The Master Key" appearing on "St. Nicholas Magazine"'s survey of readers' favorite books well into the 1920s. In 1905, Baum declared plans for an Oz amusement park. In an interview, he mentioned buying Pedloe Island off the coast of California to turn it into an Oz park. However, there is no

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text: had on the script; it appears that many of the changes were written by Baum against his wishes due to contractual requirements with Hamlin. Jokes in the script, mostly written by Glen MacDonough, called for explicit references to President Theodore Roosevelt, Senator Mark Hanna, Rev. Andrew Danquer, and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller. Although use of the script was rather free-form, the line about Hanna was ordered dropped as soon as Hamlin got word of his death in 1904. Beginning with the success of the stage version, most subsequent versions of the story, including newer editions of the novel, have

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text: Tin Woodman and Scarecrow respectively, which shot the pair to instant fame. The stage version differed quite a bit from the book, and was aimed primarily at adults. Toto was replaced with Imogene the Cow, and Tryxie Tryfle (a waitress) and Pastoria (a streetcar operator) were added as fellow cyclone victims. The Wicked Witch of the West was eliminated entirely in the script, and the plot became about how the four friends were allied with the usurping Wizard and were hunted as traitors to Pastoria II, the rightful King of Oz. It is unclear how much control or influence Baum

title: L. Frank Baum

text: the "Evening Post". Beginning in 1897, he founded and edited a magazine called "The Show Window", later known as the "Merchants Record and Show Window", which focused on store window displays, retail strategies and visual merchandising. The major department stores of the time created elaborate Christmastime fantasies, using clockwork mechanisms that made people and animals appear to move. The former "Show Window" magazine is still currently in operation, now known as "VMSD" magazine (visual merchandising + store design), based in Cincinnati. In 1900, Baum published a book about window displays in which he stressed the importance of mannequins in drawing

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text: that he wrote on December 20, 1890 (full text below). On January 3, 1891 he returned to the subject in an editorial response to the Wounded Knee Massacre: The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extirmination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries, we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth. A recent analysis of these editorials has challenged their literal interpretation, suggesting that the actual intent of Baum was to generate

title: L. Frank Baum

text: tribes. "Father Goose, His Book" contains poems such as "There Was a Little Nigger Boy" and "Lee-Hi-Lung-Whan." In "The Last Egyptian", Lord Roane uses "nigger" to insult the title character, while in "The Daring Twins", set in the American South, the only character to use the term is a boy from Boston complaining that his mother uses their money to help "naked niggers in Africa." Baum mentions his characters' distaste for a Hopi snake dance in "Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John", but also deplores the horrible situation of Indian Reservations. "Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch" has a hard-working

title: Vicki Baum

text: she might have to defend herself, right?” While training with Mahir, Baum mastered a rope-jumping routine that was designed for German heavyweight champion Franz Diener. She later credited her strong work ethic to the skills instilled in Mahir’s studio. Baum began writing in her teens but did not turn to writing professionally until after the birth of her first son. Her first book, "Frühe Schatten: Die Geschichte einer Kindheit" ("Early Shadows: The Story of a Childhood", 1919), was published when she was 31. Thereafter she published a new novel nearly every year, with a career total of more than 50

title: Kurt Baum

text: Kurt Baum Kurt Baum (March 15, 1908 – December 27, 1989) was an Austria-Hungary born American operatic tenor. He is best remembered for his 25 seasons spent with the Metropolitan Opera, between 1941 and 1966. Born ethnic German-Jewish in Prague on March 15, 1908, Kurt Baum attended high school in Cologne, Germany where his father did business and attended medical school at the University of Prague. Robust and athletic, Baum was at one time the amateur heavyweight boxing champion of Czechoslovakia and member of Max Schmeling's Sports Club in Cologne. Baum never considered a career in music until a friend

title: L. Frank Baum bibliography

text: Herbert operetta). Among other changes, the film ended by treating the entire adventure as a dream. (Baum used this technique only in "Mr. Woodchuck", and in that case the title character explicitly told the dreamer numerous times that she was dreaming.) A completely new Tony Award-winning Broadway musical with an African-American cast, "The Wiz", was staged in 1975 with Stephanie Mills as Dorothy. It was the basis for a 1978 film by the same title starring Diana Ross as an adult Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow. "The Wizard of Oz" continues to inspire new versions, such as Disney's

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text: drafts, many for works that Baum may never have actually started. Listed below are those either known to have been performed (such as the lost plays of his youth) or that exist in at least fragmentary or treatment form. Early film treatments of Baum's book included 1910 and 1925, as well as Baum's own venture The Oz Film Manufacturing Company. Metro Goldwyn Mayer made the story into the now-classic movie "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale. It was only MGM's second feature-length film in three-strip Technicolor (the first being "Sweethearts" (1938), based on the Victor

title: Frank Kramer (artist)

text: Snow states is known nationally. Gannaway, Atticus. "Frank Kramer: The Lost Illustrator of Oz." "The Baum Bugle", Spring 2011. Frank Kramer (artist) Frank Kramer (1905–1993) was an American artist known chiefly for his illustrations for Jack Snow's two Oz books, "The Magical Mimics in Oz" and "The Shaggy Man of Oz", founded on and continuing the famous Oz stories by L. Frank Baum. He also illustrated Robert A. Heinlein's "Solution Unsatisfactory", Maureen Daly's "Twelve Around the World" (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1957), and many of Caary Paul Jackson's sports novels for children, including the Bud Baker series. Other than a

title: Peter Baum

text: Israeli citizenship under the country's Law of Return, was announced as a member of Israel's 150-man player pool. Peter Baum Peter Baum (born December 14, 1990) is an American professional lacrosse player. He also played for Colgate University in Division I college lacrosse. Born in Seattle, Washington, Baum is Jewish. He grew up in Portland, Oregon. He is the son of Richard L. Baum, a former Colgate alumnus and lacrosse player, and Jill Baum. He has a brother and a sister. Baum started playing lacrosse at the age of 13. He attended Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, becoming a

title: Peter Baum

text: Peter Baum Peter Baum (born December 14, 1990) is an American professional lacrosse player. He also played for Colgate University in Division I college lacrosse. Born in Seattle, Washington, Baum is Jewish. He grew up in Portland, Oregon. He is the son of Richard L. Baum, a former Colgate alumnus and lacrosse player, and Jill Baum. He has a brother and a sister. Baum started playing lacrosse at the age of 13. He attended Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, becoming a three-year letterman and three-time All-Conference. He was named a high school All-American and First Team All State in

title: Bruce Baum

text: Bruce Baum Bruce Baum is an American comedian. His live act consists of prop comedy as well as more traditional stand-up material. One of his best-known stand-up routines is his diaper-wearing Babyman character. Baum is recognized for his large mustache and long hair and is often described as a David Crosby look-alike. Baum and comedian Barry Marder co-authored the "Letters From a Nut" series of books, written under the pseudonym Ted L. Nancy. Baum was a football player at UCLA, but transferred to the University of California-Davis to receive more playing time. At UC-Davis, he earned a degree in political

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text: and "The Rainbow's Daughter, Or The Magnet of Love". Oliver Morosco picked it up and added three songs of his own, written with composer Victor Schertzinger. Although the play toured for over a year, Morosco didn't think it was profitable enough to take to Broadway, closed the show, and started working as a film producer. Baum and Gottschalk then formed The Oz Film Manufacturing Company with members of The Uplifters, and the two other scripts, based on Baum's novels, "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" and "Queen Zixi of Ix, Or, The Story of the Magic Cloak", became drafts for the

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text: marry him if he helps the football team beat Homecoming rival Massajersey, so Spartacus uses the pills given to him by the historical Spartacus. Baum and Hough stated their intention to put an actual football game on stage "'for blood'" using real football players playing their best. In the end (no matter which side actually wins the game), Spartacus receives another letter from home identifying the heiress as Cora Jones, who is actually at Wellesley College, thus causing all to accept their chosen partners. The intended composer for this work is unknown. This scenario was copyrighted 23 February 1905, and

title: Plays of L. Frank Baum

text: "The Wizard of Oz", which was predominantly written by a Mr. Finnegan and Glenn McDonough. Baum tried to prevent the show from opening, but Mitchell protested and Hamlin refused to produce the show without Mitchell. This was to be a musical with composer Nathaniel D. Mann, who provided some songs for "The Wizard of Oz" such as "The Different Ways of Making Love," and the original film score for Baum's feature film/theatre hybrid, "The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays" (1908). Baum's work with fellow writer Emerson Hough were intended as musicals. "The Maid of Athens" and "The King of Gee-Whiz" exist in

title: Paul Baum (mathematician)

text: Paul Baum (mathematician) Paul Frank Baum (born 1936) is an American mathematician, the Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. He is known for formulating the Baum–Connes conjecture with Alain Connes in the early 1980s. Baum studied at Harvard University, earning a bachelor's degree "summa cum laude" in 1958. He went on to Princeton University for his graduate studies, completing his Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of John Coleman Moore and Norman Steenrod. He was several times a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study (1964–65, 1976–77, 2004) After several visiting positions and an assistant professorship

title: Steven K. Baum

text: Steven K. Baum Steven K. Baum is a genocide scholar, gerontologist with an MA in psychopharmacology from New Mexico State University (2010). He has written several books including "The Psychology of Genocide" (Cambridge University Press 2008), "Antisemitism Explained" (UPA 2012), and with co-editors Florette Cohen and Steven L. Jacobs, "Antisemitism in North America: New World, Old Hate" (Brill). He founded with N. E. Rosenberg and is chief editor of the "Journal for the Study of Antisemitism" (JSA). Baum practices psychology in Albuquerque, New Mexico. As chief editor of the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, Baum became entangled in politics

title: Maud Gage Baum

text: to make a stable living for his family. However, because he granted too much credit to his destitute customers, his store went out of business. Maud's third son, Harry Neal Baum was born on December 18, 1889. His birth, which was a month before his father's store was foreclosed by the bank, increased the financial burden on the family. Maud's fourth son and final child, Kenneth Gage, was born on May 24, 1891. The family moved to Chicago, where Frank found a job as a newspaper reporter. By then, Maud and Frank had four sons, Robert, Harry, Kenneth, and Frank.

title: L. Frank

text: L. Frank L. Frank (born 1952) is the "nom d'arte" of L. Frank Manriquez, a Tongva-Ajachmem artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and indigenous language activist. She lives and works in Santa Rosa, California. In 1990, L. Frank was Artist in Residence at the Headland Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California; her artwork has been exhibited widely throughout California and appears in several publications. Her regular column/graphic, "Acorn Soup", has appeared in the quarterly newsletter "News from Native California" since 1992. "Acorn Soup" features the comic adventures of Coyote in his various guises: the Creator of the Universe and the

title: Ray Baum

text: Ray Baum Raymond Sims Baum (August 18, 1955 – February 9, 2018) was an American lawyer, lobbyist, and politician Baum was born and raised in La Grande, Oregon. He studied at Brigham Young University and Willamette University College of Law. Baum was admitted to the Oregon bar in 1983 and practiced law in La Grande. Baum served in the Oregon House of Representatives in 1988. He was majority leader in the state house for the Republican Party starting in 1995 but did not seek reelection in 1996. In 2003 Ted Kulongoski appointed Baum a member of the Oregon Public Utility

title: Frank L. Hope & Associates

text: and Saudi Arabia. Frank Hope Sr. founded Frank L. Hope & Associates in 1928. Prior to establishing the firm, Hope attended (but did not graduate from) the University of California, Berkeley and the Carnegie Institute of Architecture, was employed in the design department of a ship builder during World War I, then worked for the architectural firm of Requa & Jackson. Frank L. Hope & Associates designed houses and churches in a Mediterranean style, which he learned while at Requa & Jackson. These buildings included the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in San Diego and the Carmelite Monastery located