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The King of Sylvania has issued an edict against conspirator Prince Dalny, in love with the king's daughter, Wanda. Visiting a group of former classmates ignorant of their designs, he is made captive, tried and sentenced to death. Wanda ...See moreThe King of Sylvania has issued an edict against conspirator Prince Dalny, in love with the king's daughter, Wanda. Visiting a group of former classmates ignorant of their designs, he is made captive, tried and sentenced to death. Wanda pleads for his life, but the only concession she can obtain is that the prince shall choose between two cell doors: behind the one to be placed a beautiful woman, behind the other a man-eating tiger. If he chooses the woman, marriage: if tiger, death. Wanda is distraught, but her favorite maid, whose lover is captain of the arena guards, arranges to learn from him in which cell shall be placed the tiger, that Wanda may signal the prince from the royal box. The day arrives. The unusual spectacle draws a vast assemblage. Wanda, about to give the sign to her lover suddenly realizes that if she saves him from the tiger he is lost to her through a forced marriage, leaps into the arena to open the tiger's cell door, and die with him. A signal from the king causes the guards to prevent the rash impulse. The king descends into the arena, causes the doors to be opened, and shows the tiger secure behind cage bars in one, and the other EMPTY. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less