and the Scarecrow manages to grab a rope ladder dangling underneath it. However, the ladder breaks and he falls. The scene shifts abruptly back to the little girl, who had fallen asleep. She wakes up and leaves. The grandfather reads from the book that Dorothy marries Prince Kynd and they live happily ever after. Cast Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy Larry Semon as a farmhand / the Scarecrow Oliver N. Hardy as another farmhand / the Tin Man Curtis McHenry as Snowball / the Cowardly Lion. (although credited in film as "G. Howe Black") Charles Murray as the Wizard Bryant Washburn as Prince Kynd Josef Swickard as Prime Minister Kruel Mary Carr as Aunt Em Frank Alexander as Uncle Henry Virginia Pearson as Lady Vishuss, Otto Lederer as Ambassador Wikked Frederick Ko Vert as the Phantom of the Basket The names of William Hauber and William Dinus also appear in the cast credits at the beginning of the film, but their characters are not cited. Some identify the Cowardly Lion's player as Curtis McHenry. Production The film departs radically from the novel upon which it is based, introducing new characters and exploits. Along with a completely different plot, the film is all set in a world that is only barely recognizable as the Land of Oz from the books. The film focuses mainly on Semon's character, who is analogous to Ray Bolger's Scarecrow character in the 1939 version. Another major departure from the book and the later film is that the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion are not actually characters, but are only disguises donned by the three farm hands after they are swept into Oz by a tornado. Dorothy in the film is also identified as being 18 years old, an appreciably older character than in the 1939 production, where Judy Garland's Dorothy is presented as an adolescent, a girl just beginning to enter her teen years. In an even more radical departure from the original book, the Tin Man is portrayed as a villain who betrays Dorothy, Scarecrow, and the Lion. Some elements of the narrative have their roots in earlier adaptations of The Wizard of Oz. For example, Prime Minister Kruel has a predecessor in King Krewl, the antagonist in the 1914 film His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz. The note explaining Princess Dorothea's true heritage is signed "Pastoria", a name used for the exiled