Frank Baum’s 1900 novel for children, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Langley, South African-born ... encounters after the Wizard has left in his balloon—the china people (porcelain figures ...

The actor Frank Morgan (1890-1949) will be remembered for time and eternity as the great and powerful Oz or, rather, the bumbling but loquacious humbug puttering behind the curtain in Victor Fleming’s ...