up niece for Miss Gulch,  a rescue from the Wizards balloon by the Munchkin fire department,  a singing princess and her cowardly suitor who gets transformed into  a lion, a rainbow bridge that the witch constructs as a trap for  Dorothy, and a romance between Dorothy and one of the farmhands.  When the script got too bogged down, however, writers  Noel Langley (I) (qv), Florence Ryerson (qv) and  Edgar Allan Woolf (qv) would turn to L. Frank Baum (qv)s book  for inspiration, and the result was closer to the whimsical fantasy  Baum had written.