When Baum had been touring New York State in the title role, the actor playing the ghost fell through the floorboards, and the rural audience thought it was part of the show and demanded that the actor repeat the fall, because they thought it was funny.

The original 5-person Mattel game development team had grown to 110 people under now-Vice President Baum, while Daglow led Intellivision development and top engineer Minkoff directed all work on all other platforms.

He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry, and was the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Ann ( née Stanton ) and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood.

Benjamin Baum was a wealthy businessman, originally a barrel maker, who had made his fortune in the oil fields of Pennsylvania.

His father bought him a cheap printing press ; which, with the help of his younger brother Henry ( Harry ) Clay Baum, with whom he had always been close, he used to produce The Rose Lawn Home Journal.

Mother Goose was a moderate success, and allowed Baum to quit his door-to-door sales job ( which had had a negative impact on his health ).

Baum and Tietjens had worked on a musical of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1901 and based closely upon the book, but it was rejected.

It is unclear how much control or influence Baum had on the script ; it appears that many of the changes were written by Baum against his wishes due to contractual requirements with Hamlin.

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 magical lands, including The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus and Queen Zixi of Ix.

Trouble is, not only is there no evidence that he purchased such an island, no one has ever been able to find any island whose name even resembles Pedloe in that area .< nowiki ></ nowiki > 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.

The group, which also included Will Rogers, was proud to have had Baum as a member and posthumously revived many of his works despite their ephemeral intent.

After little success probing the unrealized children's film market, Baum came clean about who wrote The Last Egyptian and made a film of it ( portions of which are included in Decasia ), but the Oz name had, for the time being, become box office poison and even a name change to Dramatic Feature Films and transfer of ownership to Frank Joslyn Baum did not help.

In 2006, two descendants of Baum apologized to the Sioux nation for any hurt their ancestor had caused.

" Upon hearing that the militia had melted away into the woods, Baum assumed that the Americans were retreating or redeploying.

Jean Bae was chosen in September 2012 to fill the vacancy of Kenneth Baum, who had resigned from the Council earlier that month.

Under his leadership, Baum had 374 Brunswick infantry and dismounted dragoons, 300 Indians, loyalists, and Canadians, and two 3-pound cannons manned by 30 Hessians.

L. Frank Baum concluded The Marvelous Land of Oz with the revelation that Princess Ozma, sought by the protagonists, had been turned into a boy as a baby, and that Tip ( who had been searching for her ) is that boy.

Producer Martin Baum had formed his own independent production company, Optimus Productions, and had a deal with United Artists.

M. Carolyn Baum, PhD, serves as the program director and was the most recent president of the American Occupational Therapy Association ( AOTA ).

The highly influential American author L. Frank Baum wrote the first and most famous of his Oz books, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in 1900.

In his first year, 1898-1899, he published Henry James's In the Cage ; Leslie Stephen's English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century ; Jocelyn by John Sinjohn, a nom-de-plume of John Galsworthy ; a translation of August Strindberg's Der Vater ; and Mother Goose in Prose, the first children's book by L. Frank Baum and the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish ( Baum's most famous work The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in Chicago just a year later ).

In it, Baum violates his own standard of leaving out most elements that can disturb or frighten children.

Published on June 20, 1916, with full-color and black-and-white illustrations by artist John R. Neill, it is significant that no one from Oz appears in the book until its climax ; this is due to Baum having originally written most of the book as an original fantasy novel over ten years earlier, in 1905.

The high sales were most likely influenced by the death of Baum earlier in 1919.

The change was most likely made by Baum at the suggestion of his editors.

Gage was well-educated and a prolific writer — the most gifted and educated woman of her age, claimed her devoted son-in-law, L. Frank Baum.

Baum and Denslow, like most writers and illustrators, used the materials at hand that they knew best.

Baum and Denslow held the copyrights to most of these works jointly.

The most powerful kind of fairy is never known by any other name in the books, although Baum sometimes differentiated them by spelling Fairy with a capital F. The Fairies seem to be the most powerful race, with seemingly limitless power.

The weekly " Hollywood Gold " movies on Saturday and Sunday were hosted by one-time theater operator and Hamilton, Ohio native Fred Baum who most recently owned the Holiday Auto Theater.

Many of the characteristics the older Button-Bright took on in Sky Island vanished from the Oz books, Baum apparently assuming from the lower sales that he would be too unfamiliar to most of his readers if he had changed that much.

Walter Spies with Angelica Archipenko circa 1930After living for nine years at the confluence of two rivers in Campuan ( Ubud ), Spies grew weary of his increasingly hectic social life, and retired to the tranquil mountain retreat that was to become the setting of some of his most beautiful and atmospheric paintings, including " Iseh im Morgenlicht 1938 " Despite his desire to escape from a constant stream of visitors, Spies still used to receive guests at Iseh, including the musician Colin McPhee and his wife, anthropologist Jane Belo, the Swiss artist Theo Meier and the Austrian novelist Vicki Baum.

Will Baum and David Newgarden were Andy's cohosts of the show previous to Ken but David only did a handful of shows and Will did maybe a dozen at the most.

Professor Richard Baum of the University of California, Los Angeles said that " it has to be taken very seriously as the most thoroughly researched and richly documented piece of synthetic scholarship yet to appear on the rise of Mao and the CCP.

" Though it was " not a sufficiently rich or nuanced interpretive scaffolding to support the full weight of the Chinese experience under Mao ," Baum still believed that " this book will most likely change forever the way modern Chinese history is understood and taught.

Baum used it, most prominently in his Sky Island.

In the eleventh chapter of that book, Baum states that " the Erbs are the most powerful and merciless of all evil spirits, and the Phanfasms of Phantastico belong to the race of Erbs.

Steht auf der Grenze ein Baum, so gebühren die Früchte und, wenn der Baum gefällt wird, auch der Baum den Nachbarn zu gleichen Teilen (" If a tree stands on the property line between two plots of land, the neighbours have equal rights to the fruit thereof and, if it is cut down, also to the tree.

Dorothy is a standard character, having at least a cameo role in thirteen of the fourteen Oz books written by L. Frank Baum ( while she did not appear at all in The Marvelous Land of Oz, she is mentioned several times in that story, as it was her actions in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that led to the events in the former ) and is at least a frequent figure in the nineteen that followed by author Ruth Plumly Thompson, getting at least a cameo in all her books except Captain Salt in Oz ( in which neither Oz nor any of its inhabitants appear, though they are mentioned ).

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum did not specifically state Toto's breed, but describes him as " a little black dog ( presumably male except in the 1939 MGM movie a female was used ) with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose ".

Lyman Frank Baum ( May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919 ) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Baum not only wrote the play but composed songs for it ( making it a prototypical musical, as its songs relate to the narrative ), and acted in the leading role.

After Baum's newspaper failed in 1891, he, Maud and their four sons moved to Humboldt Park section of Chicago, where Baum took a job reporting for the Evening Post.

Baum would work 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, and was particularly offended when Neill published The Oz Toy Book: Cut-outs for the Kiddies without authorization.

In 1905, Baum declared plans for an Oz amusement park.

Baum made use of several pseudonyms for some of his other, non-Oz books.

Baum continued theatrical work with Harry Marston Haldeman's men's social group, The Uplifters, for which he wrote several plays for various celebrations.

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 great controversy in recent times because of his suggestion that the safety of White settlers depended on the " extermination " of the remaining Indians.

" 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.

) This aspect is retained in the name for cotton in many European languages, such as German Baumwolle, which translates as " tree wool " ( Baum means " tree "; Wolle means " wool ").

In response to a proposal first made on July 22 by the commander of his German troops, Baron Riedesel, Burgoyne sent a detachment of about 800 troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum from Fort Miller on a foraging mission to acquire horses for the German dragoons, draft animals to assist in moving the army, and to harass the enemy.

Baum was originally ordered to proceed to the Connecticut River valley where they believed horses could be procured for the dragoons.

In mathematics, several specific infinite sequences of bits have been studied for their mathematical properties ; these include the Baum – Sweet sequence, Ehrenfeucht – Mycielski sequence, Fibonacci word, Kolakoski sequence, regular paperfolding sequence, Rudin – Shapiro sequence, and Thue – Morse sequence.

The vegetable people grow what Baum elsewhere calls " meat people ," apparently for food ; Neill's pictures show plants with the heads of human children being watered by their growers.

In a 2002 review, Bill Delaney of Salem Press praised Baum for giving children the opportunity to discover magic in the mundane things in their everyday lives.

He further commended Baum for teaching " millions of children to love reading during their crucial formative years ".