Wizard of Oz

It landed on the wicked witch of the east.

The wizard of Oz was written by Lyman Frank Baum who was a populist newspaper editor. He wrote the Wizard of Oz in 1900 as a symbol of the failed populist movement of the late 1880s and 1890s.

A stroke was the cause of death for Lyman Frank Baum [May 15, 1856-May 6, 1919]. The author and originator of the Oz books suffered a stroke on May 5th. He died the following day. His last words were said to be, 'Now we can cross the Shifting Sands'. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Dorothy's antagonist is the Wicked Witch of the West. For Dorothy has the Slippers of the Wicked Witch of the East, and the Wicked Witch of the West wants them for their secret powers.

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a quality is given to something to which it can't be applied literally. Two metaphors come to mind in regard to the 1939 film version of 'The Wizard of Oz'. One is the following:Toto is an escaped prisoner, the prison being an unjust one. This may be applied to the situation of Toto being confined within a basket while Almira Gulch bicycles him away from all he knows and loves. Toto manages to escape the confinement and run back to Dorothy Gale. The situation recalls that of a real prisoner who manages to escape unjust punishment in a real prison, such as in 'The Count of Monte Cristo'. Another is the following: Professor Marvel is a high flier. Marvel really doesn't fly high. But he's pretentious. Another way of saying that an individual is pretentious is by the phrase 'high flier'. At the same time, the phrase explains the situation with Professor Marvel's alter ego, the equally pretentious Wizard, in the beautiful, enchanted, magical lands of Oz. The Wizard indeed leaves Oz in a hot air balloon.

On opening night, the Broadway cast to the 1903 stage version of The Wizard of Oz included Edna Adams as Sophronia; Stubby Ainscoe as Malvonia; Georgia Baron as Antonia, the Snow Queen, and the Captain of the Phantom Guards; Albertine Benson as Semponia, and Leontine Em; Helen Byron as Cynthia Cynch, the object of Chopper's affections; Irving Christerson as Pericles; Gilbert Clayton as King Pastoria II; Josephine Clayton as Pansy Lil; Marie Clayton as Remnante Saute; Mabel De Vere as Peter Boq, and Gloriana Jane; Lillian Devere as Premonia, and Vera Ellen; Earl Dewey as Silicus; Ida Doerqe as Tom Piper, the Poppy Queen, Alberto, and the Captain of the Royal Guards; Robert Fairchild as Leo; Anna Fitzhugh as Jean de Char; Bobby Gaylor as Oz; Genevra Gibson as Bardo, and Francois Giblets; Ella Gilroy as Simon Powder, and Gladys Ann; Lola Gordon as Pungue DeSert; Arthur Hill as the Cowardly Lion; Charles Hoskins as Sophocles; Edith Hutchins as Locasta the Good Witch of the North; Grace Kimball as Tryxie Tryffle; Anna Laughlin as Dorothy Gale; Stephen Maley as Sir Wiley Gyle; Elsie Mertens as Aileen Nance; David C. Montgomery as Niccolo Chopper [the Tin Woodman]; Harold T. Morey as Brigadier General Riskitt; Joseph Schrode as Alonzo, and the Army of Pastoria; Edwin J. Stone as Dorothy's pet cow Imogene; Fred A. Stone as the Scarecrow; William van Brunt as Diogenes; and Bessie Wynn as Sir Dashemoff Daily. The scriptwriter was author and Oz series originator Lyman Frank Baum. The producer was Fred R. Hamlin. In charge of music were A.B. Sloane and Paul Tietjens. And the director was Julian Mitchell. The Broadway cast to the 1998 stage version of The Wizard of Oz included Bob Dorian as Uncle Henry, and the Winkie General; Jessica Grove as Dorothy Gale; Eartha Kitt as the Wicked Witch of the West, and Almira Gulch; Dirk Lumbard as the Tin Woodman; Judith McCauley as Glinda the Good Witch; Ken Page as the Cowardly Lion; Mickey Rooney as the Wizard, and Professor Marvel; and Lara Teeter as the Scarecrow.

Yes. A tale is an account of an event, be it real or imagined. The Wizard of Oz is a fictional, imaginary, made-up account of Dorothy's and Toto's adventures in the land of Oz. Traditional tales tell stories in ways that fit in with the attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, and principles of a particular country, culture, or people. And The Wizard of Oz respects commonly accepted attitudes, beliefs, principles, and standards of behavior regarding right and wrong, good and evil.

They did not carry any weapons. They just poured water on her by accident, while trying to put out the Scarecrow, who was set on fire by her.

There are eight examples of similes in the original 1900 book edition of The Wizard of Oz. The page numbers are from the 1903 edition by M.A. Donohue & Co. Publishers, Chicago, Illinois.' After the first few whirls, and one other time when the house tipped badly, she felt as if she were being rocked gently, like a baby in a cradle' [p. 15]. '... Dorothy breakfasted like a princess off peaches and plums' [p. 87]. 'Now the Wicked Witch of the West had but one eye, yet that was as powerful as a telescope, and could see everywhere' [p. 141]. '... that was the end of the black bees, and they lay scattered thick about the Woodman, like heaps of fine coal' [p. 144]. '... Dorothy ... was truly frightened to see the Witch actually melting away like brown sugar before her very eyes' [p. 154]. 'Before them was a great stretch of country having a floor as smooth and shining and white as the bottom of a big platter' [p. 228]. 'It is a most tremendous monster, like a giant spider, with a body as big as an elephant and legs as long as a tree trunk' [p. 239]. 'Again a head shot swiftly out, and the great Lion went rolling down the hill as if he had been struck by a cannon ball' [p. 247].

The characters of Wizard's Hall are Thornmallow, a doubtful misfit boy who was sent to Wizard's Hall without any knowledge of spells; Tansy, a bright and cheerful girl; Gorse, a stubborn, fierce girl; and Willoweed, a friendly boy. Thornmallow's name was given to him because he is "prickly on the outside, squishy within". Tansy, although a dark brown girl, is named after a bright yellow flower because of her cheeriness; Gorse is named after a thorny plant because she is prickly and snappy; and Willoweed is named after a plant that can grow almost anywhere because of his hospitality, welcome-attitude, and ability to make friends.

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Dr. Mo, a.k.a Dr. Morning Glory

The California town of Culver City, inside one of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios sets at 10202 W. Washington Blvd., is the town in which the beloved 1939 film version of 'The Wizard of Oz' is filmed.

The Marvelous Land of Oz was created in 1904.

It traditionally airs during the holiday season, around Thanksgiving typically but sometimes closer to Christmas.

According to author and Oz series originator Lyman Frank Baum [May 15, 1856-May 5, 1919], The Wizard of Oz is an American fairy tale for the enjoyment of children. But there are those who see within Baum's work representations and symbols that aren't acknowledged in his writings as among his overt intentions. One interpretation is the political representation of Baum's royal history of the beautiful, enchanted, magical lands and peoples of Oz. That interpretation is couched in the Populist terms of the 1890s, when Baum already may have been working out characters and plots in the decade before publishing the first of 14 books in his Oz series. According to the interpretation, the Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan [March 19, 1860-July 26, 1925], the Populist Party's presidential candidate in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. Like the Lion, he was courageous in the defense of his beliefs, and most assuredly not at all cowardly. He fought for the rights of common people, and for free coinage of silver, to release from the deathly grip of the bankers and industrialists. For the symbol of Bryan's preferred, mixed gold and silver money standard is the pair of Silver Slippers, that have the secret power to allay the scary, rough, bumpy trek down the gold standard route of the Yellow Brick Road. In fact, the book ends with the Slippers being lost in the desert, in the transition from the magical world of Oz to the real world of Kansas. Likewise, in the transition from political economic theory to political economic realities, arguments for free coinage of silver ended in 1900, which was the year in which The Wizard of Oz was published.

We're off to see the Wizard/The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/We hear he is a Whiz of a Wiz/If ever a Wiz there was/If ever oh ever a Wiz there was/The Wizard of Oz is one because/Because because because because because/Because of the wonderful things he does/We're off to see the Wizard/The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Almira Gulch, as played by Margaret Hamilton [December 9, 1902-May 16, 1985], has an order from the Sheriff's Department to remove Toto from the farmhouse where the dog lives with Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. She puts Toto in the basket behind the seat of her bicycle. But, unbeknownst to her, Toto escapes as Gulch pedals off.

A Border Terrier was the breed in Tin Man, a Cairn Terrier named Terry played Toto in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

In the original 1910 book edition of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy Gale's farmhouse is carried by a cyclone all the way from Kansas to the beautiful, enchanted, magical lands of Oz. Dorothy and her pet dog Toto land in the Blue Munchkin Country of the East. As they trudge down the Yellow Brick Road, they meet the Scarecrow in the surrounding farmland, and spend the night in a small cottage by the wayside. The three then meet the Tin Woodman where the Road is flanked by trees. And the four then meet the Cowardly Lion where the Road goes through a dark, scary, thick forest. The five friends cross two deep, wide ditches to escape the bear-bodied, tiger-headed Kalidahs. On the other side of a wide river is the poppy field. Dorothy falls asleep, and is carried away from perpetual sleep by the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. The beautiful, graceful Queen of the Field Mice helps the four friends rescue the bulky, heavy Cowardly Lion from sleep eternal. The five friends pass through farmland, and spend the night at one of the attractive, roomy farmhouses. The next day, they reach the Emerald City, where they are admitted to the Emerald Palace. From the Palace, the five friends head towards the Yellow Winkie Country of the West. They take a break in the neglected, rough, uninhabited countryside. The Winged Monkeys capture them, but take only the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy, and Toto to the Yellow Castle of the Wicked Witch of the West. Once Dorothy kills the Witch, she has the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman brought to the Castle to recuperate from the injuries inflicted when their respective destrawing and dropping on the rocks by the Monkeys. The five friends start back to the Emerald City, but decide to call upon the Monkeys for a direct flight to the Emerald City. In the City, they once again gain admittance to the Emerald Palace, and thereby the Throne Room of the Wizard. When the Wizard leaves in his hot air balloon, the five friends head southward for help from Glinda the Good Witch. They go through fields, the wood of Fighting Trees, the Dainty China Country, and the Great Old Forest. They catch a direct flight over the Hill of the Hammer-Heads, and into the Red Quadling Country of the South, by way of the Winged Monkeys. From the Red Palace of Glinda the Good, the five friends separate. The Tin Woodman goes back to rule from the Yellow Castle of the Winkie Country of the South. The Scarecrow goes back to rule from the Emerald Palace. The Lion goes back to rule in the Great Old Forest. And Dorothy and Toto go back home to Aunt Em, in the new farmhouse built by Uncle Henry, in Kansas. In the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's farmhouse lands on top of, and kills, the Wicked Witch of the East. In thanks, she and her pet dog Toto are invited into the Munchkin village. As they travel down the Yellow Brick Road, they meet the Scarecrow, then the Tin Woodman, and finally the Cowardly Lion. The five friends almost fatally are sidetracked when they go through the poppy field. They visit the Emerald City, and get into the Emerald Palace of the Wizard. They leave the Palace for the Castle of the Wicked Witch of the West. Almost immediately, they see a sign that reads 'I'd turn back if I were you'. They trudge on through a wilderness until they're captured by the Winged Monkeys. The Winged Monkeys drop the three friends, and carry just Dorothy and Toto to the Witch. But Toto runs away, and brings the three friends to the Castle of the Wicked Witch of the West. After killing the Witch in self-defense, Dorothy leaves with Toto and her three friends for the Emerald City. In the City, she sees the Wizard take off in a hot air balloon, and then Glinda the Good appear. Dorothy uses the secret power of the Slippers of the Wicked Witch of the East to get back to Kansas. The movie ends with her in the family farmhouse with Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and Toto.