Kaleidoscope/Knife


Does this nasty article have any basis in fact?

"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects". Will Rogers (1879-1935)

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Couldn't find anything online about it. The peddler seemed shocked that Judd wanted to buy it, but why was it being sold in the first place?

Dini

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If it is purely fictional I wonder if it featured in Lynn Riggs's original play Green Grow the Lilacs or if it was an invention of the screen writers.

"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects". Will Rogers (1879-1935)

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It certainly wasn't the screen writers, Oklahoma was a stage musical first.

Let Zygons Be Zygons.

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If it is purely fictional I wonder if it featured in Lynn Riggs's original play Green Grow the Lilacs or if it was an invention of the screen writers.


I'm well aware that Oklahoma was a stage musical before being adapted for cinema, so perhaps I should have written:-

If it is purely fictional I wonder if it featured in Lynn Riggs's original play Green Grow the Lilacs or Rodgers and Hammerstein's stage version or if it was an invention of the screen writers.

"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects". Will Rogers (1879-1935)

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It was definitely in the stage version of Oklahoma.

Let Zygons Be Zygons.

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That may be so, but was it an invention of Rodgers and Hammerstein? Or was it an invention of Lynn Riggs? Or, and this is what my OP was asking, does it have a basis in fact?

"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects". Will Rogers (1879-1935)

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Minor point, but that isn't a kaleidoscope. A kaleidoscope has multicolored beads reflected in mirrors, making interesting patterns. The device Will bought in Kansas City just shows pictures.

Surprising that he didn't discover the knife blade himself though.

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I'm as pedantic as the next nerd but the technical term for the "device" is irrelevant.

"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects". Will Rogers (1879-1935)

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They're real.

I looked in one in a dollar store and lost my right eye.




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