These photographs from the Los Angeles Daily Tribune of April 1, 1913, show the principal creators of The Tik-Tok Man of Oz , the hit sta...

Louis F. Gottschalk, circa 1913 When I wrote the book All Wound Up, my history of The Tik-Tok Man of Oz stage musical, I relied on compose...

Harold Lloyd Hal Roach In early 1913, silent movie superstar Harold Lloyd, then unknown, popped into a rehearsal for The Tik-Tok Man of Oz ,...

L. Frank Baum, playwright As a playwright, L. Frank Baum seemed to have little patience with editorial interference. When a script doctor re...

Here's another photo from the series taken by a newspaper photographer, likely in January 1913. Composer Louis F. Gottschalk and author ...

Paul West Paul Clarendon West (1871-1918) wrote the lyrics to the song “One! Two! Three! All Over,” which was interpolated into The Tik-Tok ...

Reviewer Atticus Gannaway recently had nice things to say about All Wound Up in the Winter 2024 issue of The Baum Bugle , the journal of Th...