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The Baum Bugle: Christmas 1967

Vol. 11, no. 3 (Christmas 1967)

Editors Dick Martin and Fred M. Meyer (uncredited)

Layout and cover design by Dick Martin

Front cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from a sheet music cover (1902’s The Wizard of Oz)

Back cover art by Dick Martin, adapted from a Baum scrapbook clipping for a toy theater (The Fairy Prince)

Christmas 1967 Selected Contents

This is a guide to the articles and reviews from the issue that will most benefit researchers, scholars, and collectors. The printed issue includes additional content such as news, editorial letters, and other commentary-based departments.

 

The Fairy Prince

A typescript of the two-act playlet adapted by L. Frank Baum from The Enchanted Island of Yew. The toy theater and accessories are reproduced on the back cover of this issue; assembly instructions are provided here by Bill Eubank.

 

The Transformation of Allegro Furioso

Hans Kolbe looks at music in the Oz books from the perspective of a fictional musicologist in the land of Oz.

 

Songs Sung and Music Played in the Land of Oz

James E. Haff pens a categorized listing, with page numbers, of songs and anthems in the original Oz books.

 

A Checklist of Ozian Recordings

Fred M. Meyer provides a checklist of 78, 33 1/3, and 45 rpm records of music and narrated stories relating to Oz.

 

Bibliographia Oziana

Dick Martin collates bibliographical data about the early printings of the Oz books. This installment focuses on Handy Mandy in Oz, The Silver Princess in Oz, Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz, and The Wonder City of Oz.

 

Bibliographia Baumiana

Dick Martin collates bibliographical data about the early printings of L. Frank Baum’s non-Oz books. This installment focuses on The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. A revised and expanded examination would be published in the Winter 1999 issue.