The political interpretations focus on the first three, and emphasize the close relationship between the visual images and the story line to the political interests of the day. Scholars have examined four quite different versions of Oz: the novel of 1900, the Broadway play of 1902, the Hollywood film of 1939, and the numerous follow-up Oz novels written after 1900 by Baum and others. Frank Baum and first published in 1900) as an allegory or metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of America in the 1890s. Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Rogers in 1906 sees the political uses of Oz: he depicts William Randolph Hearst as Scarecrow stuck in his own Ooze in Harper's Weekly
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