More bad jokes fit for vaudevillians abound, but the Woggle-Bug is an amusing attack on the style of the self-important teacher. HM stands for Highly Magnified because, it would seem, he escaped from a school whilst he was magnified. They pick up a new companion on the way, Mr HM Woggle-Bugg. There are a series of adventures to be had on their way back to the Emerald City to reclaim the throne. Tip and his unconventional companions escape with the Scarecrow and head to the Kingdom of the Winkies, which is ruled over by the Tin Woodman. Or as one critic noted, “General Jinjur and her soldiers are only shapely chorus girls,” and are thus another element in the plans for a stage adaptation. Anthony, who founded the suffragette movement.) Under the revolutionary Jinjur, the men are forced to cook and clean for their wives. (Baum’s mother-in-law was a friend to Susan B. It is a not-so-kind satire on the suffragettes. The coup, led by General Jinjur, is, as the lame joke goes, an army of girls who are revolting. The three arrive just as a coup is launched against the Scarecrow, who had assumed the kingship of the Emerald City after the Wizard had left. That night Tip uses the magic powder to animate a wooden horse, and, with Jack in tow, he heads toward the Emerald City.
This does not fool Mombi, who attempts to scare Tip in return by sprinkling the Powder of Life onto Jack, and then threatening to turn Tip into a marble statue the following morning. To scare Mombi, the mischievous Tip makes a man out of wood with a pumpkin for a head, and he calls him Jack Pumpkinhead. They live in the Country of the Gillikins, in the North of Oz, which is divided into four kingdoms at the centre of which is the Emerald City. The Marvelous Land of Oz tells the story of Tip, a boy who is at odds with his guardian, the witch Mombi.
Nevertheless, The Marvelous Land of Oz started Baum on a series of Oz books that would amount to 14. Baum, who was 44 when The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, was experiencing real success for the first time in his career, and he was pragmatic in his work, clearly writing the sequel for an eventual stage adaptation featuring the vaudevillian duo.
The musical was aimed more at adults than children, and featured two popular vaudevillian comedians who played the Scarecrow & the Tin Woodman. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been adapted into a stage musical in 1902 with great success. Or, at least, that is what he writes in the preface. Frank Baum, author of the children’s book of 1900, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, wrote a sequel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, to answer all the questions about the future of the Scarecrow & the Tin Woodman put to him by his many young readers.
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