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Prince Silverwings

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Prince Silverwings was a abortive theater piece prepared by L. Frank Baum for a projected summer 1904 production. The planned play was Baum's theater adaptation of Edith Ogden Harrison's 1902 book Prince Silverwings and Other Fairy Tales. Ogden Harrison was a prolific author of children's books and fantasy tales in Baum's generation, as well as the First Lady of Chicago — she was the wife of mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV. Production of the play was forestalled by the Iriquois Theater Fire of 30 December 1903, which resulted in 570 deaths and forced a closure of all Chicago theaters.

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Prince Silverwings was a abortive theater piece prepared by L. Frank Baum for a projected summer 1904 production. The planned play was Baum's theater adaptation of Edith Ogden Harrison's 1902 book Prince Silverwings and Other Fairy Tales. Ogden Harrison was a prolific author of children's books and fantasy tales in Baum's generation, as well as the First Lady of Chicago — she was the wife of mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV. Production of the play was forestalled by the Iriquois Theater Fire of 30 December 1903, which resulted in 570 deaths and forced a closure of all Chicago theaters. Ogden Harrison and Baum did not abandon theater after this initial failure; as late as 1915 they were trying to establish a children's theater in Chicago — but without success. The full text of Baum's dramatic adaptation has not survived; a synopsis and scenario was published in an edition of just a few copies, for copyright and production purposes. A single copy of that edition is preserved in the Syracuse University Library. A modern edition of this scenario was published in 1982 by The Pamami Press, with illustrations by Dick Martin. The Chicago Historical Society has a typescript of the synopsis that varies in a few details.