Prince Silverwings
Prince Silverwings and Other Stories is a 1902 children's book by Edith Ogden Harrison. The book is best known because she collaborated with L. Frank Baum on an uncompleted stage adaptation of the book as a musical extravaganza. Baum composed music for the play as well, and at least one of these songs, "Down Among the Marshes," survives and has been recorded by James Patrick Doyle on his 1999 album, Before the Rainbow: The Original Music of Oz, and Baum scholar Michael O. Riley published a complete edition of their Scenario and General Synopsis for the play through the Pamami Press in 1982 in a limited run of 125 copies in white cloth bound in purple with illustrations by Dick Martin. It is otherwise known only from a typescript in the Chicago Historical Society.
The play, which was never staged, is discussed at length in "The Faltering Flight of Prince Silverwings" by David L. Greene, Peter Hanff, and Michael Patrick Hearn in the Autumn, 1974 issue of The Baum Bugle (18:2). They argue that the work depicts the beginnings of such Oz characters as the Nome King, Trot, Polychrome, and John Dough as well as the premises for Ozma of Oz, Tik-Tok of Oz, and Rinkitink in Oz owe a debt to this collarboration.
References
Book review of Scenario and General Synopsis of Prince Silverwings by Douglas G. Greene. The Baum Bugle 27:2 (Autumn 1983)
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- By the Candelabra's Glare (1898)
- Father Goose, His Book (16 March 1899)
- The Army Alphabet (20 January 1900)
- The Songs of Father Goose (30 March 1900)
- The Navy Alphabet (1 August 1900)
- Father Goose's Year Book (22 July 1907)
- Father Goose's Party (10 August 1915)
- Songs of Spring (1917)
- The High-Jinks of L. Frank Baum (1969)
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- The Mackrummins (11 February 1882)
- The Maid of Arran (11 February (opened 15 May) 1882)
- Matches (11 February (opened 18 May) 1882)
- Kilmourne, or O'Connor's Dream (opened 4 April 1883)
- The Queen of Killarney (1883)
- King Midas (1901)
- The Octopus; or the Title Trust (1 May 1901)
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (18 September 1901)
- The Wizard of Oz (16 June 1902)
- Montezuma, or The Son of the Sun (November 1902)
- King Jonah XIII (September 1903)
- The Maid of Athens: A College Fantasy or Spartacus (1903)
- Prince Silverwings (1903)
- Father Goose (August 1904)
- The Pagan Potentate (1904)
- The King of Gee-Whiz (23 February 1905)
- The Woggle-Bug (February 1905)
- unfinished, untitled play set in Egypt (January 1906)
- Down Missouri Way (1907)
- Our Mary (1907)
- Mortal for an Hour or The Fairy Prince or Prince Marvel (1909)
- The Koran of the Prophet (23 February 1909)
- The Pipes O'Pan (31 March 1909)
- Peter and Paul (1909)
- The Girl from Oz/The Girl of Tomorrow (1909)
- The Clock Shop (1910)
- The Pea-Green Poodle (1910)
- The Tik-Tok Man of Oz (31 March 1913)
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz (16 November 1913)
- King Bud of Noland, or The Magic Cloak (1913)
- Stagecraft, or, The Adventures of a Strictly Moral Man (14 January 1914)
- High Jinks (24 October 1914)
- The Corrugated Giant (1915)
- The Uplift of Lucifer, or Raising Hell: An Allegorical Squazosh (23 October 1915)
- The Birth of the New Year (31 December 1915)
- Blackbird Cottages: The Uplifter's Minstrels (28 October 1916)
- Snow White (1916)
- The Orpheus Road Show: A Paraphrastic Compendium of Mirth (1917)
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- Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers' Directory (1873)
- The Book of the Hamburgs (July-November 1882, collected 1886)
- The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows and Interiors (1900)
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