Baum would later recount the actual story in an article, but the short story is told from the point of view of the actor playing the Ghost.

At about the same time, Baum embarked upon his lifetime infatuation with the theater, a devotion which would repeatedly lead him to failure and near-bankruptcy.

While Baum was in South Dakota, he sang in a quartet that included a man who would become one of the first Populist ( People's Party ) Senators in the U. S., James Kyle.

With the success of Wizard on page and stage, Baum and Denslow hoped lightning would strike a third time and in 1901 published Dot and Tot of Merryland.

Morosco, incidentally, quickly turned to film production, as would Baum.

) Frank Reilly tactfully wrote to Baum that the material was not " in harmony with your other fairy stories ," and would generate " considerable adverse criticism.

Historian John Curran believes the original road was in Peekskill, New York-historical maps show it would have been the quickest routes from docks on the Hudson River to the Peekskill Military Academy Baum attended as a child.

On August 14, Baum asked Burgoyne for reinforcements but assured his army commander that his opponents would not give him much trouble.

How far such analyses and comparisons should be pursued is of course open to debate ; as Baum writes of the social structure of Oz in Chapter Three, p. 31, " I do not suppose such an arrangement would be practical with us ...."

Baum hoped that the movie would be a success, and provide a big publicity boost to the Scarecrow novel to follow in 1915.

Although the journey of an American child to Oz had long been a favorite plot for Baum, this work represented its last appearance: no more children would be inducted into Oz for the duration of his work on the series.

The introduction to the book states that its inspiration was a letter a little girl had written to Baum: " I suppose if Ozma ever got hurt or losted, everybody would be sorry.

She is the rightful ruler of Oz, and Baum indicated that she would reign in the fairyland forever, being immortal.

By that point in time, Baum had also established that the inhabitants of Oz ceased to age, suggesting that Ozma would always appear to be a beautiful young girl.

Thus Schubert's numbers would run 1-5, 13, 6-8, 14-21, 9-10, 23, 11-12, 22, 24, a sequence occasionally attempted by Hans Joachim Moser and Günther Baum.

If Baum thought of the country of the Munchkins as the nearest region to him, it would have been in the east while he lived in Chicago, but when he moved to California, it would have been in the west.

However, in Tik-Tok of Oz Baum suggested that Oz people could go on living after being eaten and digested, and also that Nomes would continue to live after being cut into tiny pieces, which disproves the destruction theory.

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.

Along with Benedict ( then Cardinal Ratzinger ) and Cardinal Jaime Sin, Baum was one of three remaining cardinals elevated by Paul VI to retain voting rights in that conclave, though two more who had already died years before John Paul, António Ribeiro and Emile Biayenda, would have been eligible to vote had they remained alive.

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.

Disillusioned, Baum left the theatre — temporarily — and went to work as a clerk in his brother-in-law's dry goods company in Syracuse.

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

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 ).

She emphasized humor to a greater extent than Baum did, and always considered her work for children, whereas Baum, while first and foremost considering his child audience, knew that his readership comprised all ages.

William Wallace Denslow ( May 25, 1856 – May 27, 1915 ) – usually credited as W. W. Denslow – was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

After Denslow quarreled with Baum over royalty shares from the 1902 stage adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, for which Baum wrote the script and Denslow designed the sets and costumes, Baum determined not to work with him again.

Arcades stretch between the columns, supporting a gallery. The main Neo-Renaissance altar is the work of Antonin Baum and dates to 1879, when the church interior was restored and modified.

He set to work on an opera titled Peter and Paul, with a libretto by L. Frank Baum, though the whereabouts of libretto or score are unknown.

With Sony Wonder, it has produced Mega Babies ( also aired on Fox Family ), as well as a direct-to-video feature, Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage ( a prequel to both the L. Frank Baum work, and the 1939 movie ).

Although Baum used The Shaggy Man a great deal in his books from his first appearance onward, he did not appear in any productions of The Oz Film Manufacturing Company, nor did he appear much in the work of Baum's successors other than Jack Snow.

He received approval from group Vice President Gabriel Baum to start work.

A rebel force of 2, 000 men, primarily composed of New Hampshire and Massachusetts militiamen, led by General John Stark, and reinforced by men led by Colonel Seth Warner and members of the Green Mountain Boys, decisively defeated a detachment of General John Burgoyne's army led by Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, and supported by additional men under Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann.

John Frederick " Jack " Snow ( August 15, 1907 – July 13, 1956 ), born Piqua, Ohio was an American radio writer, writer of ghost stories, and scholar, primarily of the works of L. Frank Baum.

A good example of the results obtainable with ultrasonic radiation is contained in papers presented by Dr. G. Baum who has explored the human eye.

Baum started writing at an early age, perhaps due to an early fascination with printing.

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.

By the time he was 17, Baum established a second amateur journal, The Stamp Collector, printed an 11-page pamphlet called Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers ' Directory, and started a stamp dealership with friends.

While Baum was touring with The Maid of Arran, the theatre in Richburg caught fire during a production of Baum's ironically-titled parlor drama, Matches, destroying not only the theatre, but the only known copies of many of Baum's scripts, including Matches, as well as costumes.

In 1899 Baum partnered with illustrator W. W. Denslow, to publish Father Goose, His Book, a collection of nonsense poetry.

In 1900, Baum and Denslow ( with whom he shared the copyright ) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to much critical acclaim and financial success.

Two years after Wizards 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.

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.

Baum planned to live on the island, with administrative duties handled by the princess and her all-child advisers.

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.

Unlike with The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, Baum invested none of his own money in the venture, but the stress probably took its toll on his health.

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the only element of romance lay in the backstory of the Tin Woodman and his love 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 of Oz and Tik-Tok of Oz, both based on dramatizations, which Baum regarded warily until his readers accepted them.

Children's author and playwright L. Frank Baum referred to a seat in this passage of his novel Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ; “ At once a little girl rose from her seat and walked to the door of the car, carrying a wicker suit-case in one hand and a round bird-cage covered up with newspapers in the other, while a parasol was tucked under her arm .”

Sharon was given the rank of Major and chosen to command the company-sized unit, with Shlomo Baum as deputy in command.

Baum did this to end the Oz series, but was forced to restart the series with this book due to financial hardships.

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.

This line-up, including Ziska Baum on vocals and Loren Standlee on flute, fragmented during the 1968 student revolution, with Allen and Smyth forced to flee France for Deià in Majorca.