- From the moment it opens, the spectator is brought very close to the inwardness of the traditional story. He is able to admire the two women, one dark and opulent, the other fair and serene-eyed. The dark woman steals out at evening, and joins the pleasure ring of singers and dancers. She is soon fatigued, and is carried home by a burly slave. Half-waking, she drops on to the silken couch, and, gathering her infant to her, falls into a heavy slumber. Next morning her child is dead. She steals her neighbor's babe. Mother love, however, is undeceivable, and the rightful mother perceives the substitution. She clamors for her child, and the disputants, both so beautiful, are led to the King's Court of Justice. Solomon hears the plaint, and, taking the child, he hands it to a nearby elder, whilst the words, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other," ring through the court. The dark woman smiles her triumph ; but the mother falls at the feet of the judge, and pleads to him to give the child to the other woman. Solomon takes the child. This time it is to hand it to the mother, who crushes it to her breast in passionate joy.—Bioscope - July 11, 1912
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