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A beautiful young queen, having arrived at a marriageable age, her councilors decide that she must marry. Proclamation is made, and suitors are invited to contest for her hand. The queen's jester an ugly dwarf with a heavenly voice, is ...See moreA beautiful young queen, having arrived at a marriageable age, her councilors decide that she must marry. Proclamation is made, and suitors are invited to contest for her hand. The queen's jester an ugly dwarf with a heavenly voice, is passionately in love with her. He pours forth his love, in a melodious strain, under her balcony window. The queen, entranced, begs him to reveal himself, but he refuses; whereupon she drops her scarf to him as a token, and retires to dream of a mysterious prince who will come to claim her. The "prince" not forthcoming, courtiers are sent, far and near, to hasten the errant one's arrival, and announcement made that no one but he who can produce the scarf may claim her. On the day that the courtiers are to report, the court is assembled in grand array. The queen is disappointed at their failure, and about to dismiss them, when the dwarf produces the scarf and avows his love. He is cast into prison for his effrontery, and pines away, until the gods, pitying his plight, transform him into a beautiful youth, and set him free, in resplendent attire. Wandering, disconsolate at the queen's behavior, he sings a farewell song under her window, is captured by the guards and brought before the queen, who acknowledges her love, and they are united amid universal rejoicing. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less