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ofS OLD NICK’S BIOGRAPHERiSiCr*j r iot-ntf. tho Licr o'* 3th !■lt;* inc■Iictillererama*Iysiteliattli-2lialV°;Ilftoru*ten ny-121(1myernintiofcryv«rt’Clltl'AI liftII Itin.*[lw**dyherk’Qnlt-herac*tii9Tj. FKAtflC I* AIM. WIHTEIl OF JtTKVn-B .STOItlE?, I.V TOWN,iMa J*LIfc nod Adventure* of Simla.■Clcun1* flna n Blj; Sale—ExpccIn to ] Writ* n Juvmllr Unnk nud Jin | Opera ft Vear—**KI«k Jonah il*« ,^*l»ixLevn1J^T,,Mr. and Mrs. L, Frank Baum of l.’hica£0 are iho suc^cr cA Mr. Hmim’s sister, Mrs, \V. 13. II. Nc-nl. Mr. Baum is also n brother of lir. Henry Ci Baum. lie has writieu iwelve volumes, little and big, Df cbiklron'a atones, probably tbo most popular children's stories mnv published. The first of these which lias Jiud the larcr-eac sa:« whs ‘*1’ nr her Goose/' “Tho Wonderful Wizard od 0z,u which Mr, J.tmim hiis since pot jnlo nn operatir extra vag-unto, has cold nearly an many volumes on its pri’dpcessiir, nml le-eaUdO of tho euccvs of the opera now on in way Fruit to open the new Majestic theater lu New York, is perhaps letter known. His Jaiesi work, ’’The Life cud Ad vultures of Snma Claus.” which has nu additional local■\vOre1uyFiAT*l*TWCha:iii*«niniercs? bee a u so Mrs. Maty Outvie* c^|‘1-iAJAVfciL!dc;ter.rled,Icc,fiht;InClark drew the piciuroe, promises ro.n.u outrun Ida other works in popularity i - -Iieciit® iu Uicma Iihlti-sls till clubi drcn i mined lately. Tho IJrst edition nf (it,000 copies will soon be exhausted i and n second edition ivjll be put nut Rc-:lt; before Christines. The work is being: pushed especially in JWu* York and Chicago, In tho department stores in in ' these chips niiiikiluru tUentera with scenes from the book nrc in nperation in the display windows; It Is ilie Christmas children's bouk nf tho jenr.Mr. Ihiuiu was asked yesterday I r.boat hiB literary work. fie I? nowj under coiitrncL to write static* for tho Jtowen-McrrvH company of ludiiuiap-nils. For this company Jin expects, he say*. tr» write a children's hook a year, II« oxpocu?, however, la nddb; tion to I his, to write the book of one-1 opera a year, too. Tho way ia which “Oz” has taken eufournsL'S him to continue In tbla profitable line. Mr,] Bunm has written a new opera, King Jonah the Thirteenth, tbo story, as the title indicates, of a Imrd luck:mam Ha baa another opera, too/ music by Knapp Mann, which Klaw Krlangcr Unve Inhand. Mr. Bniim'Is, therefore, ns likely 1 bn in the piliid of theater-goers far tbo nestfew yci\f9 es he Is to be re in umbered by the juveniles who aro still buying °Father Oooso” and 'Thu Wonderful Wizard, and xrhn will he for mrtuy Ch rial in as clmea nfter this students, of ilio biography of Snntn Clnus. j “ft la pleasant work,1' aniil Mr. Baum y enter day, and t os poet to keep at It. I have writ Ion nothinp yet wlildi has proved a failure, probably beeiiUHft whatever other defects, tlm hooka uiry have nil are wholly original. I like 'Santa Clan*1 hc*t| nnd bfltove It will Hvo Iflngeat for the! I theme is one that will uGver grow’ oldmffj ./i.lid if the ixitieeptloii which I bJjYtx*\r/ Of' -‘Old Nick* l^comea mice flrmiy^gcatnWished with t'hildten th* book? !sriuboiinij to bo FrtamlArdi in thntno future attempts to createBflnti CJnu* Will ffuccecd^..; .
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Syracuse Sunday Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Sun, Nov 30, 1902
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