Miss Barrison was a chorus girl in Florodora who worked her way to a leading actress in The Wizard of Oz at the age of 20 through various and sundry methods, the most likely one being that she was by 1902 the mistress of the married Julian Mitchell.
He told the press, too, that his other stipulation was that Mabel Barrison would play Jane, one of the two babes. In September 1903, while Babes in Toyland played its last round of pre-Broadway performances at the National Theatre in Washington D.C., Mitchell said in an interview that his only demand from MacDonough was that the Second Act concluded with an exploding volcano. It was Mitchell's suggestion that it be combined with the British pantomime The Babes in the Wood. During the trial, MacDonough testified that he had never seen her libretto and that his source for the show was a short horror story called "The Wondersmith" by Fitz-James O'Brien. In July 1903, Alice Riley of Evanston, IL, filed suit against Mitchell, Hamlin, Herbert, and MacDonough for plagiarism, charging that their successful extravaganza had stolen important elements from her libretto for The Toyshop, a children's operetta that she had submitted in 1902 to Fred Hamlin, manager of Chicago's Grand Opera House. Act Three execution - Pastoria, after declaring himself the rightful ruler of Oz, condemns the Wizard and Dorothy to death and the wicked Uncle Barnaby arranges Alan's execution on the gallows for the murder of the Master Toymaker.Act Two divertissements - An all-star "Ball Of All Nations" in Oz and a choreographed "March of the Toys" and "The Military Ball".Despotic rulers - The Wizard and the Master Toymaker.
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